Tumolt and Tears It’s been a long, emotional and tumultuous day for the WOGO and Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital staff. I’ll start with the good news. The team completed a total of 42 knee replacements in 4 days of surgeries. There are 42 brand-spanking new knees in the Congo. The HBMM and WOGO teams worked […]
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The Importance of the Autoclave
The Importance of the Autoclave Our third day of surgery completed 10 additional joint replacements. This brings the number of new knees to 38. Our surgical teams were slowed down today because the Autoclave failed during one of the cleaning processes between surgeries. Two of our scheduled surgeries had to be pushed out to day […]