A Passion for Saving Lives
For Dr. Celeste Adrian, a wound care expert and surgeon at Kapsowar Mission Hospital in Kenya, wound care isn’t just part of her day job—it’s a passion that helps save lives. Without access to reliable healthcare resources, Dr. Celeste travels to the local market to look for seat cushions that can be sterilized and used as foam for wound dressings. She then utilizes generic suction devices and combines them with the seat cushion foam to create makeshift wound therapy devices that have helped her patients recover from life-threatening wounds. This month, our team visited Dr. Celeste and her colleagues at Kapsowar to establish a partnership with the hospital and further advance DO’s negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) project, which will provide an affordable, reliable, and electricity-free option for treating severe wounds that take far too many limbs and lives in developing countries. “Dr. Celeste’s makeshift NPWT devices, with dressings made from seat cushions, have saved several patients from limb amputation,” Project Engineer II Hannah Tilley says. “Many of the other hospitals would have gotten to the point of needing to amputate because they just couldn’t get the wound under control.” With the right equipment, like the device DO is developing, Dr. Celeste and her team could save many more limbs and lives. We are thrilled to parter with Kapsowar and are eager to see how God uses our mutual passion for wound care to save lives. To read more about our NPWT device and our partnership with Kapsowar, click here.
