In recent months I’ve had an increasing number of contacts from those who have read this Blog and started thinking about maybe coming out to Kampala to help at the hospital or clinics. Often they, and I, are not immediately clear about what they could do when they get here; what would be useful for us, interesting for them and make a difference for our patients and staff.
I have some thoughts about this, that may become clearer over the next few postings…
As I walk around the hospital (IHK) visitors and staff often greet me as “Doctor”. Now doctors are nice people and very necessary members of the team in a hospital but I am NOT a doctor, and in many ways (that will hopefully become clear) I think that is good for IHK.
We always need more good doctors, nurses, physios, lab techs, pharmacists and any other clinicians, either to do or to teach/coach/mentor. In fact the t/c/m is probably more useful as it fits very well with our aim of raising standards and building local sustainability.
If you are already qualified (or almost) in any of the above and interested then please do get in touch. You can contact me by clicking here.
Of course for a hospital to operate well, we also need a wide range of non-clinical expertise; which I’ll start to address in the next post.
