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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 | Comments Off

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 22 Charis – IMC (Lira)

Posted in Advent, Charis - IMC Lira, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Over the last 3 years, I’ve had the great pleasure of watching our work in Lira grow and reach more and more of the people in that community with an ever-increasing range of services. Earlier this year we relocated to a facility owned by Charis, represented by Dr. Joel at the far left in the [...]

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Advent: Day 21 eQuality Health Bwindi

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

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 | Comments Off

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 | Comments Off

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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Advent: Day 18 1st Graduation Ceremony at IHSU

Posted in Advent, International Medical Group, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2010 | Comments Off

On Saturday 18th December IHSU held its first graduation ceremony. In the photo above The Chancellor, Hon. Justice Julia Sebutinde, awards 31 students their Master of Science in Public Health. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Nick Wooding stands with her and The Chairman of Council, Dr. Moses Galukande looks on from the stage behind. The Dean, Prof. [...]

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Advent: Day 17 Primary Care

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, International Medical Foundation, Sponsors, Touch Namuwongo, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2010 | Comments Off

International Medical Foundation (IMF) provides public health and primary care to the communities living around IHK and the up-country clinics (mentioned in Day 12). This includes for example: health education, family planning, reproductive health, HIV testing and treatment, immunizations and treatments for the common acute conditions such as malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhea. We operate [...]

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Advent: Day 16, 1 0r 1,000?

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, International Medical Group, tagged , on December 16, 2010 | Comments Off

So okay I know it’s not a photo. This is one of the more interesting discussions that we’ve had at board level over the last year. Should we spend $7,000 to help 1 patient or 1,000 patients? Tough. We’ve decided to do both, for various reasons, which perhaps the next two posts will help outline.

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Advent: Day 15 New Lecture Rooms

Posted in Advent, International Medical Group, tagged , on December 15, 2010 | Comments Off

Earlier this year, in just 10 weeks, we converted an empty helicopter hanger into a new building with 4 lecture rooms. These have been in use during this semester and this afternoon I will be in Room 2 sitting one of my MPH exams! Next year we will add another 2 floors and hope to [...]

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Advent: Day 14 Calvin Treated for Elephantiasis

Posted in Advent, Hope Ward, Patients, tagged , , , on December 14, 2010 | Comments Off

Calvin is just one of our many hundreds of patients treated free of charge in Hope Ward. He had operations regularly with us for over two years, after which he was able to go back to school at the age of 25. Elephantiasis is an infection that blocks lymph drainage from the legs. They swell [...]

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