We recently received our first report outlining patients who have recently been immunised by Kenneth at the Lira Clinic.
It has taken a few months to get to this point. We received a gift from one of our sponsors in October to meet the cost of training for Kenneth and Miriam. They received the formal training in March and since then we have been able to source the drugs from the Government and start our immunisation programme.
Millenium Development Goal (MDG) #4 is to Reduce Child Mortality
Target: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
In Lira one child in 10 dies before its fifth birthday – that’s more than ten times the rate of children dying every year in wealthy countries like the UK. These young children die mostly from preventable illnesses such as acute respiratory infections (mostly pneumonia), diarrhoea, malaria, measles, HIV/AIDS and neonatal conditions – which are all avoidable through existing interventions. These conditions are regularly those being treated at the Lira clinic and immunisation is an important aspect in the control of many of these.
