Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kaluba has been a patient on Hope Ward and his story was printed in today’s Monitor:
Our thanks to Dr Richard and the clinical team who have helped to make such a significant change in Kaluba’s quality of life and to Dr Ian and other supporters who generously sponsor such care on Hope Ward.
Only a month [...]
Posted in Cancer Care, Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Hamza, Dr. Richard Feinmann on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr Richard writes…
here you see a sad little Tom with a Burkitts Lymphoma behind his left eyeball. As you can imagine he was in so much pain and cried and cried.
You can see him above with Dennis and Maria our fabulous Chemotherapy nurse (and Dr Hamza our excellent oncology doctor).
Burkitts is largely an African lymph [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann, HIV/AIDS, TB on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr Richard writes…
This is Edward from Touch Namowongo and I guess this is our commonest admission. Advanced HIV and pulmoary Tuberculosis… a deadly combination. He came in on a stretcher because he was so weak and malnourished…He weighed 26.5kgs. They get so sick they can’t eat or drink and end up looking like this..really skeletal. [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Moses Galukande, Dr. Richard Feinmann, VVF on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr Richard writes…
Grace, a lady in her late thirties, went into labour with fourth child. Went to health centre and diagnosed obstructed labour (baby could not get out). Went to hospital and had caesarian section but too late (happens commonly) and baby was stillborn and there was much damage to her pelvic organs. Went [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr Richard sent this update about one of our patients on Hope Ward:
I was just going home before Easter w/e when I met little Zainab and her mother. She’s come back fom her home in Hoima (north western Uganda) for more skin grafting. She was brought to us before Christmas, sponsored by Stanbic Bank, because [...]
Posted in Pader Clinic, Patients, tagged Dr Peter Grant on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Janeth is a 30 year-old mother of 3 who walked to IMC Pader from a neighbouring Village, accompanied by her own mother. She had suffered from frequent abdominal pain over the previous 8 years, and had courses of treatment in various places that sometimes helped her for short periods. These bouts would sometimes last for [...]
Posted in Pader Clinic, Patients on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following table provides some insight into the numbers of patients now being treated at the Pader Clinic. Last year we were pleased to be able to help provide funds, from one sponsor in particular, to renovate this clinic and to make it ready and fit to start meeting the needs of the local community.
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
(-23rd)
Total
a
43
17
15
67
142
b
37
18
3
16
74
c
23
10
20
10
63
d
11
12
9
11
43
e
16
2
9
10
37
f
50
63
37
57
207
180
122
93
171
566
Patients [...]
Posted in Patients, Physiotherapy on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Baby Enock was found abandoned and delivered to the Police Station in late September. The police then took him to a local orphanage who brought him to Hope Ward at IHK with severe malnutrition and undiagnosed cerebral palsy.
The medical staff estimate he is around one year old. He has failed to develop functionally and [...]
Posted in Patients, Physiotherapy on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christine is a 15 year old girl who suffered extensive burns to her arms, face and torso when the paraffin she was using to light the stove spilt on her clothes and caught alight. She has undergone multiple surgeries including skin grafts and contracture release. We met Christine when she was admitted to Hope Ward [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dr. Grania Perceval-Price, Dr. Richard Feinmann, HIV/AIDS, TB on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
TB is one of the leading causes of morbitity and mortality in Uganda, especially in patients co-infected with HIV/AIDS. The Ugandan Ministry of Health estimates that there are on average 80,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda every year. It can be difficult to diagnose and needs specialist input to [...]
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