Posted on Monitor Online…
MARTIN SSEBUYIRA
Hope Ward at International Hospital, Kampala (IHK) has expanded its operations by taking children with complex diseases to entertainment places to improve the care given to them.
Ms Jemima Kyeyune, the Programme Coordinator International Medical Foundation which Hope Ward falls under, says this will help relax children with complex cases and enhance healing. “Most of these children are confined in one ward for over a month and this lowers their chances of interacting, smile and having hope of living longer,” Ms Kyeyune says. Maintaining the approach would improve their living conditions.”
Hope Ward was founded with an initiative of making a difference to health care in Uganda. It handles patients with complex conditions who may not be able to afford treatment.
“War victims in the North who require plastic surgery, those with tumours, children with HIV who need hospitalisation, abandoned babies, women with bladder fistulae due to birth injuries, people with cancer and victims of road accidents are the majority patients at the ward,” Ms Kyeyune says.
The cost of their treatment is met by IHK, private donors, and companies. Dr Ian Clarke, the IHK CEO believes that by joining hands with other companies, the hospital can make such services available to the needy.
