Alison Santos

End Date: Jan 1, 2015 12:00 AM

In Februrary, the Patient Referral team was referred to a little 5 year old girl. Alison has a keloid scar on her sternum from a burn when she was 3 and the scar tissue from the burn ended up not repairing normally. A keloid is considered a “scar that does not know how to stop”. It is a scar which there is an overgrowth of dense fibrous tissue.

Alison lives with 9 other people in her house. She lives with her mother, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Alison is being raised by her single mother.

As this keloid is still growing and the skin is getting thinner and thinner on her sternum, a plastic surgery is needed for this little girl. The Patient Referral team estimates the cost of this case to be $1000. This cost includes transportation to and from appointments for Alison and her mother, medicine, supplies, follow up care, and anything else needed.

If you would like to know more about this case or want to get further involved,

please contact Grace Goryoka at grace.goryoka@globalbrigades.org