Unterstützung des Lamu Hospital for Reconstructive and Global Surgery, Uganda

Lamu Hospital was founded in 2022 in Jinja, Uganda, and focuses on surgical services with an emphasis on reconstructive surgery, with a high proportion of burn injuries.

Beyond its surgical work, the hospital serves as a training center for medical professionals from Uganda and its neighboring countries. For example, interplast eV travels to Jinja several times a year to perform surgeries for two weeks, as well as to involve and train local doctors.

The Florian Lex Foundation is involved in the treatment of burn patients at Lamu Hospital, in cooperation with the Bonn-based physician Jan Wynands and his association ANDO eV. Our foundation has already covered the costs of planning an operating room building and donated medical equipment for treating burn patients. In June 2025, we traveled to Uganda with a team from interplast to see the development and progress firsthand.

We are currently active in the following funding areas:

- Provide access for needy, indigent burn patients without health insurance;

- Promote further training of local doctors, hiring a top plastic surgeon for regular work in Jinja;

- Optimize medical equipment for burn treatments.