Disease prevention, plus Maternal and Child Health

 
Since the Rotary Year 2010/2011, the Rotary Club of Kampala Central has been conducting health medical camps in Lukwanga Parish, Wakiso District. Every rotary year, four (4) medical camps are carried out in which over 800 patients of ages from 1 month to 90 years are attended to for services including dental, HIV testing and counselling, maternal health and family planning, child health and immunization, blood donation, safe male circumcision, eye care services, cervical cancer screening, ear assessment and general treatment.
 
Health camps were incorporated in the Club’s strategic plan as one of the activities to carry out to reduce disease prevalence in this community and the Club has registered great success to-date.
 
Some of the interventions include
  1. Distribution of wheelchairs to persons with disability (PWDs) with support from the Wheel Chair Foundation
  2. Freda Carr Ngora Hospital, Uganda – GG#1745984. The project funding is worth $ 192,088. Under this new project, the Rotary Club of Kampala Central will support Freda Carr Ngora Hospital (FCNH) and its Nursing and Midwifery Training School. The two institutions serve a poor rural area of Ngora, about 25Km from Kumi District headquarters. The project will provide a water supply tank, refurbish the maternity ward and operating theatre. This will enhance the health facilities and support continuation, extension and improvement of the life-saving work of FCNH.  
A Vocational Training Team (VTT) will visit six times over the next three years, thus improving the education and skills given to local staff and future generations of nurses and midwives. This will help improve healthcare for this poor rural area where many would otherwise go untreated, resulting in needless disability and increased maternal and infant mortality rates.
 
Areas of focus
  1. Maternal and child health
Expected outputs
  1. Reducing the mortality and morbidity rate for children under the age of five;
  2. Reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity rate;
  3. Improving access to essential medical services, trained community health leaders and health care providers for mothers and their children;
  4. Supporting studies for career-minded professionals related to maternal and child health
            Project Partners: The Project is being funded by a grant from the Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Club of Kampala Central partnered with the Rotary Club of Reading Matins (District 1090)
 
Sustainability: The current maternity ward, operating theatre and water infrastructure are operated and maintained by the hospital. They will continue to do the same with the refurbished facilities. After refurbishment the task will be easier and more income will be available as improved facilities attract more patients who pay fees. FCNH has a resident maintenance team who look after the existing buildings and they will care for the refurbished buildings. The required resources will be provided through income generated by the hospital and support from UPMB (MoU signed between the partners in this regard). The nursing tutors will be trained to maintain their equipment. Replacement parts are not required.
 
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