Paed­ia­tric uro­lo­gy

Con­ge­ni­tal mal­for­ma­ti­ons of the uri­na­ry and geni­tal tracts, kid­ney stones, blad­der dise­a­ses, unde­s­cen­ded testic­les or peni­le mal­for­ma­ti­ons are the main tasks of the paed­ia­tric uro­lo­gy team. Twice a year, the ARCHEMED team tra­vels to Asma­ra, whe­re an avera­ge of almost 200 child­ren are exami­ned and more than 40 are ope­ra­ted on during each mis­si­on.

At the begin­ning of their mis­si­ons, the paed­ia­tric uro­lo­gists deter­mi­ne whe­ther a child is to be trea­ted con­ser­va­tively or sur­gi­cal­ly. In par­ti­cu­lar, the pro­ce­du­res that were pre­vious­ly not pos­si­ble due to a lack of spe­cia­li­sed doc­tors are car­ri­ed out. Many child­ren have For exam­p­le, many child­ren have pro­blems with uri­na­ti­on, which can lead to an unob­s­truc­ted uri­ne loss through an expo­sed blad­der in child­ren. The­se wet and extre­me­ly unp­lea­sant­ly smel­ling child­ren have no future in Eri­trea, becau­se tho­se who ‘stink’ are excluded from atten­ding school. This means, con­se­quent­ly, having no chan­ce of fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on and being unable to lead a nor­mal social and rela­ti­onship life – a vege­ta­ti­ve exis­tence on the mar­gins of socie­ty is pre-pro­grammed.