About Us
When a child is diagnosed…
with a life-threatening or life-altering diagnosis, it places significant strain on both the patient and family. Sound communication between the family and health workers is imperative to ensure adequate trust and confidence in the health service. In South Africa, language diversity leads to many patients and families receiving counselling through an interpreter. Furthermore, paediatric patients are often excluded from counselling sessions.
Presently LMAS is focused on Paediatric Oncology and Haematology content but aims to expand to all Paediatric conditions in the future
Lusandi Medical Animations Studio NPC (“LMAS”) began through a joint passion for educating patients and families going through these heart-wrenching times in the hospital. To create a uniquely South African product, LMAS translates the content into multiple South African languages and provides characters representative of all ethnolinguistic groups.
By providing education in a simple, child-friendly manner, patients and all family members will be able to participate in the care of the child more actively. We believe this will lead to improved satisfaction in the health service, improved communication between families and all members of the health care team and alleviate hospital-related trauma and anxiety.
Our Mission
To provide explanatory medical animations for paediatric patients and their caregivers in their South African native language.
Our Objectives
Educate
in an easily accessible, understandable, electronic format for children and their families, in their home language, and with relatable characters representative of all population groups. This is especially important for children who are often excluded from counselling sessions and are fearful of what to expect in the hospital setting.
Empower
patients and families to fully partake in the patient’s management by enabling them to ask appropriate questions in an open and honest manner.
Elevate
the hospital experience by alleviating anxiety and increasing inclusivity. This will foster better health worker-patient relationships by allowing the whole family access to appropriate medical explanations of diagnoses, treatments and procedures likely to be received during the hospital stay.
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