This year we have successfully treated 8 patients with conditions ranging from high blood pressure to hernias. Malaria and typhoid continue to be very prevalent. We have also unsuccessfully treated 5 patientsbut still, it’s worth trying! Hannah was particularly upset by the death of an elderly man whom we ave been treating for several years for ongoing prostate cancer. He was taken ill during the night and she had no way so getting him to hospital and he died.
This led us to intensify our efforts to fundraise a car for her. We had to fundraise outside the charity. We had been advised that if the charity bought the car, it had to be registered in the name of the charity. I had no wish to be woken at 4 in the morning to be told that a car registered in m my name had been involved in an accident! So we fundraised outside the
charity, my son James kindly setting up a “gofundme” page for us. We made up the rest of the money ourselves and , on the Wednesday before Christmas, proudly walked into the Post Office to transfer £8000 to Sierra Leone. (I think the biggest miracle of the lot was that at 8 minutes to 11 on the Wednesday before Christmas there was no queue at the Post Office-Sally had a hair appointment at 11am in Ock Street!) The result is
Our administrator, Hannah Charley, now has a car she can use both for her own personal use and to take sick people to hospital. It has been well used. Since buying the car, we have treated a 33 year old man with liver disease. Hannah had to take him to not 1 but 2 hospitals because of the pressure on the health service due to coronavirus. At the second hospital, sadly they weren’t seen because the surgeon was only seeing 20 patients a day because of coronavirus. So Hannah took him back there again early in the morning, to be in the first 20 patients. It was just as well we had the car!. Fortunately he was eventually admitted to hospital and was discharged some days later much better.
Sadly Hannah herself had typhoid in June, and the charity paid for her treatment. Despite having typhoid herself, she still managed to care for an elderly lady with diabetes, Sadly the lady died,despite the fact that Hannah had managed to take her to hospital in the middle of the night as an emergency and had the prescription in her hand. But we live to fight another day!
Gerontius Fund Accounts Year Ending 21/6/21
Income & Expenditure
| Income from donors | 3318.25 | |
|---|---|---|
| Gif Aid Reclaimed | 400.00 | |
| 3718.25 | ||
| Transferred to Sierra Leone | 2621.00 | |
| Transfer Fees | 73.96 | |
| 2694.96 | ||
| Surplus for year | 1023.29 | |
| Balance Sheet | ||
| Balance Carried Forwards 21 June 2020 ` | 577.66 | |
| Surplus / defcit in year | 1023.29 | |
| 1600.95 | ||
| Comprising | ||
| Bank Balance as at 21 June 2021 | 1600.95 | |
| Acruals & Creditors | ||
| Debtors | ||
| 1600.95 | ||
| Additonally: held in Sierra Leone | 620.83 |
Conditions Treated
| xy | prostate cancer | 0 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| xy | Leg Ulcer-ongoi | 7,155,000 | 550 |
| xx | stomach Pain | 850,000 | 65 |
| xy | High Blood Pres | 1,000,000 | 77 |
| xy | Hernia-surgery | 3,000,000 | 231 |
| xx | malaria and wo | 500,000 | 39 |
| xy | Hernia-surgery | 2,218,000 | 171 |
| xy | Hepatts test, r | 4,129,149 | 318 |
| hernia water | |||
| coming from | |||
| umbilical, and | |||
| xx | fbroid | 0 | 0 |
| xx | Difcult breathi | 700,000 | 54 |
| xy | cirrhosis | 3,500,000 | 269 |
| xx | typhoid | 2,950,000 | 227 |
| xx | Diabetes | 0 |