Our Vision

We invest in local paediatric surgeons giving them the tools to deliver safe surgery for their nation’s children. Our data shows that, on average, each Operating Room can deliver 50 surgical procedures a month. The figure on our website increases each day based on the capacity that has been created and may not reflect an exact number of operations actually delivered. It is further updated every month based on actual procedures completed in all our partner hospitals to ensure it remains as close to the actual figure as possible. For more information please contact us on hello@KidsOR.org

In a country with life expectancy of 66, when a two-year-old little girl has an operation to treat a disability, such as an obstetric fistula that has left her incontinent, then 64 years of disability are considered to have been averted. In the paper ‘A cost effectiveness analysis of a pediatric operating room in Uganda’ by Yap et al (Surgery, 2018 May23. PMID: 29801729) it was found that a single Operating Room, dedicated to children’s surgery, could avert 6,447 years of disability for every single year of activity.