Support of Lamu Hospital for Reconstructive and Global Surgery, Uganda

Lamu Hospital was founded in 2022 by the remarkable physician Jan Wynands, a plastic surgeon from Bonn, Germany. This clinic in Jinja, Uganda, focuses on surgical services with an emphasis on reconstructive surgery.

Beyond its operational work, the hospital serves as a teaching facility for medical professionals from Uganda and its neighboring countries. For example, interplast e.V. travels to Jinja three to four times a year to perform two weeks of surgery, as well as to engage and train local physicians.

The general operating room is up and running, and a seminar building is in the final stages of construction. Construction of a burn operating room is in the starting blocks, where patients with burns, scalds, and acid injuries will be operated on almost exclusively. The Florian Lex Foundation is involved in Lamu Hospital, in close cooperation with Jan Wynands and his association ANDO e.V.

Our foundation has already covered the building planning costs and is supporting the construction of the burn operating room and has donated medical equipment for the treatment of burn patients. In June 2025, we traveled to Uganda with a team from interplast to observe developments and progress on site. The following funding areas are planned:

- Provide access for needy, destitute burn patients without health insurance

- Further improve the skills of local doctors in burn surgery

- Optimize equipment for burn surgeries and treatments

- Construction of a “clean theater” as a burn surgery

We rely on donations for our continued commitment in Jinja.