January 2013 Medical & Teaching Mission
Helps Hospital, Mbarara Community
A team
of 20
volunteers
traveled
to
Mbarara,
Uganda
in
January
to work
at Holy
Innocents
Children’s
Hospital
(HICH)
and in
the
community
of
Mbarara
in an
effort
to help
improve
the
health
of the
people
living
in
Mbarara
District.
The team
was
comprised of 11 nursing students from
Dominican University of California and
three of their nursing professors
including Anita Hunter, PhD, RN who is
Dean of Nursing and a HICH Board member;
one lawyer working with domestic
violence issues in Uganda; two chemistry
professors from the University of San
Diego and three USD chemistry
undergraduate students working on waterquality issues in
the Mbarara region. The team was in
country from January 5 through January
19, 2013 and accomplished the following:
·
Spent one week in the community of
Kibona conducting environmental and
patient assessments to ascertain what
health problems were being exhibited
secondary to the environment, especially
contaminated water, poor hygiene,
inadequate malaria prevention, and
cultural practices that contribute to
severe health problems in
the children cared for at HICH. Trained
the Ugandan nurses how to perform a
community assessment and physical
assessments to determine health
problems.
·
Collaborated with the Ugandan nurses
from HICH to present a Health Fair to
the community to help them create a
more hygienic environment, protect their
children from malaria, prepare clean
water, and take better care of
themselves.
·
Worked with the community to develop
programs to protect women and children
from domestic violence; to care for the
abandoned women and disabled children;
and to care for home-bound elders.
·
Completed 15 home visits to provide care
to home-bound patients (children and
elders) and those recently discharged
from HICH who had fragile health
problems.
·
Worked in the hospital with the Ugandan
nurses and doctors and provided an
in-service educational program.
Our sincere thanks to the
volunteers and team leader Dr. Anita
Hunter!
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District. Festo lived alone with his mother – his father and two
brothers had already died from malaria. To his mother’s great
concern, Festo too began showing signs of malaria – fever,
dizziness, vomiting. Hs mother treated him for four days with
chloroquine tablets from a local pharmacy. When he didn’t
improve, she switched to herbal remedies. Festo continued to
worsen for another 10 days, and eventually fell into a coma. His
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Holiday
Appeal Supports Hospital
Our Fourth Annual Holiday
Appeal raised nearly $29,000 for
Holy Innocents - thanks to all
who participated! A
portion of the funds raised are
earmarked for construction of a
surgical center. We expect
to fully fund the surgery center
by late 2013 and begin
construction in 2014. If
you are interested in supporting
the surgery center, contact
info@holyinnocentsuganda.org.
Jump for
Joy...
Baby Joy (left) came to Holy
Innocents in mid-2010 as a
critically ill infant.Our medical team gave her
the same high level of care that
we give all children, and Baby
Joy recovered completely.Her father wrote us, “I
really thank God for the work
you are doing on the lives of
our children in Uganda….
My Baby Joy got enough care from
this hospital and now she is
well
since July.”Recently we received another message: “I
hope you remember us. I am Joy's father and i wanted to tell you
that she is doing well and these days she has started to take
some stapes [steps] in walking…. So we thank God for you and we
pray that He bless you because your team saved Joy.” Thanks to
all our supporters who help save children like Baby Joy!
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Medical Mission Brings Training, Treatment to Children of
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Oct. 2010 - Twenty-two medical professionals and
students from around the world, including personnel from
University of San Diego, Children’s Hospital Oakland and
AmeriCares, spent eight days working at Holy Innocents
Children’s Hospital (HICH) in Mbarara this summer.
Our team
brought 1,000 pounds of supplies to HICH: IVs, medications,
suture supplies, oxygen tubing/masks/CPAP devices, stethoscopes
and more.They
established a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ward II to
help severely ill newborns being transferred to HICH from a
local government hospital.During the trip alone seven newborns were treated and
saved who would have died if the NICU had not been operational.
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We’ve built the first dedicated children’s hospital in
Uganda!
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Inc. is working to bring better health to all children of
Mbarara, Uganda and its surrounding villages through better
medical care and prevention. We’re non-profit, non-sectarian and
non-political, with only one focus: better health for a better
life for children in one small part of the world. One hundred
percent of our time and effort is focused on achieving this
objective via our fundraising and training activities to support
the building, staffing and operation of a children’s hospital in
Mbarara, Uganda.
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