AMPATH partners at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) have achieved a series of care milestones over the past few months in their quest to advance specialized care and surgical innovation in Kenya and beyond.

Two hundred and twenty young adults in need of cardiac surgery primarily due to damage from rheumatic heart disease will receive the life-saving surgery over the next two years through a new AMPATH collaboration.

A team from Indiana University School of Medicine spent a week in March at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital holding a surgery teaching “camp” to begin the process of training the Kenyan team in ERCP* and other advanced and therapeutic endoscopy procedures.

Twenty-year-old Monica had just begun college classes when she began feeling chest pain and shortness of breath while walking the short distance between her classes. In December, Monica underwent successful triple valve surgery to replace her severely damaged aortic and mitral valves as well as to repair her leaking tricuspid valve. 

Although Kenyan surgical registrar (resident) Dr. Beryl Munda often found herself completely lost in the Indianapolis campus hospitals, her AMPATH educational exchange experience convinced her she was in exactly the right place professionally.

SIGN Fracture Care has selected MTRH as the first location for the new SIGN Spine program to address spine trauma in low- and middle-income countries.