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UK Aid as a share of National Income

Posted in Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In the last few weeks there’s been a lot of discussion about UK overseas aid. (on Twitter #AidReview) DFID has just completed a thorough review of all the programmes that it supports and has announced some changes planned for the next few years. Essentially the UK Government is committed to sharing up to 0.7% of [...]

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Cost of Providing Universal Coverage

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2011 |

The Uganda Ministry of Health has set an overall goal to achieve Universal Coverage. If achieved this would enable all of its population to seek care without financial constraint or any concern of financial hardship as a result of accessing health services. It would also imply that required health services were easily accessible and available [...]

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Health Budgets Compared

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The UK Government has allocated £122b to the 2010 health budget. So for each of its 62m population that equates to £1,956 per annum. That’s a lot and is one of the reasons for the current NHS review. The Government of Uganda has allocated £482m on a purchasing power parity basis. (£1 in Uganda can [...]

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Playing Tetris With UK Billions

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , on January 25, 2011 |

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to keep track of who is spending what, or when you hear about another 100 billion for this or that, it’s hard to know just what that means or how it compares to other stuff. Information Is Beautiful has produced this short video, Debtris, which helps you [...]

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BBC News: Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , , , on January 24, 2011 |

This from BBC News. In summary, Save The Children are raising concerns about the shortfall in funding available to GAVI to continue the supply and administration of two essential childhood vaccines, one for pneumonia and the other for rotavirus – the main cause of serious diarrhoea. GAVI is facing a £500m per annum shortfall over [...]

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IMG – Doing Business as a Means of Development

Posted in Business of Health Care, International Hospital Kampala, International Medical Foundation, International Medical Group, Suubi Trust, tagged , , , , , , on January 22, 2011 |

Suubi Trust continues to support the work of International Medical Foundation, IMF. IMF, one of four companies within International Medical Group, is the group’s NGO (registered charity) providing a wide range of charitable health services to the poor ranging from community based health education, preventative services including family planning and ART, TB diagnosis and treatment, [...]

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Advent: Day 23 Development of IHK

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, Dr. Ian Clarke, International Hospital Kampala, International Medical Group, tagged , on December 23, 2010 |

This latest image on Google Earth shows how the hospital site is looking in 2010. Developments in the last 12 months include the new staff car park and the sales and marketing offices at the back of IHK (on the left side of the photo). Also the new office block used by Physio, the Chairman [...]

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Advent: Day 21 eQuality Health Bwindi

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, eQuality Health, tagged , , , , , on December 21, 2010 |

In the last year we have been working with the management team at Bwindi Community Hospital to establish a community based health scheme, which we refer to as eQuality Health. Community groups, such as the Bataka pictured above, organise themselves to make payments of $3 per group member per year. This small contribution entitles each [...]

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Advent: Day 20 IAA Healthcare

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, International Medical Group, tagged , , , on December 20, 2010 |

IAA Healthcare is our own health scheme provider. We cover 40,000 members, making us the largest product provider in the country. These pre-paid, facility based membership schemes are a great way to ensure that staff and their dependents can access quality health services across the country. Our policies are predominately bought and paid for by [...]

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Advent: Day 19 Open Heart Surgery

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, Heart Surgery, Hope Ward, Sponsors, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2010 |

IHK performed its first open heart surgery on April 13th 2007. You can read more here. OHS is very complex and expensive. Each of these procedures costs about $7,000 (which compared of course to other countries is still very good value for money). Each is performed on a charitable basis, largely due to generous support [...]

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