Santino is a four year old boy from Pader. His parents are small scale farmers. Santino is the second of six children in his family. One day while they were in the farm digging, they heard a scream coming from their hut. They ran home and found Santino’s hand stuck in the small three stone [...]
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Surgery To Open Up His Contracted Fist
Posted in Hope Ward, Pader Clinic, Patients on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fighting Malaria in Lira: Gloria Mercy
Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Patients, Volunteers, tagged Dr. Richard, Malaria on May 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Assimwe Gloria Mercy was admitted onto our in-patient ward at Charis-IMC. She is two and really sick with a temperature of 39.5 degrees and very unhappy. She has 4+ malaria and will be treated with i/v quinine. She will get better but we need to develop a programme to try and prevent these admissions. Malaria [...]
Fighting Malaria in Lira: Ronald
Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Patients, Volunteers, tagged Dr. Richard, Malaria on May 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Dr. Richard sends this report from Charis-IMC, our Health Centre in Lira, north Uganda. >>> Kisembo Ronald age 10, was admitted with bad malaria (we grade it +, ++, +++ and ++++ according to the number of Plasmodium Falciparum parasites in the blood film) Ronald was a 4+ with over 100 parasites per high power [...]
We Helped Save His Leg
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Empower African Children on May 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Geoffrey is an energetic young man. Unfortunately his life has not been an easy one; his story gives a picture of the negative outcomes of Rural-Urban migration. Geoffrey left his home in rural Uganda (Rakai) to live with his brother in Kampala. He says his brother mistreated him and this lead him to live on [...]
Thanks To The Kindness Of Strangers, She Now Stands Tall
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, Physiotherapy, tagged Royal Van Zanten on May 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Prossy Agoru is 16years old from Namaiba village in Mukono district. She lost her mother when she was still young, and she was left in the care of her father. Her story begins when she was taken by one of her relatives to work in the landing site in Mukono. She failed to find a [...]
Little Mubiru Finally Finds A Home
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Bless a Child Foundation, Mubiru on May 17, 2010 | Comments Off
Mubiru Lwasa has featured in previous Hope Ward News letters. He was beaten, his bones were broken, and he was then starved and locked in a box for months by his father. His father was arrested tried and sent to Luzira prison. But no one was left to care for Mubiru now all alone and [...]
Amina: Hope Ward
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged VSO on February 25, 2010 | Comments Off
Amina was brought to Hope Ward by a wonderful lady who was on a VSO placement in Masindi. She had served so many ladies as a Traditional Birth Attendant in her community. However a motorcycle accident left her relying heavily on a pair of crutches unable to bear weight at all on her broken leg. [...]
Mubiru Lwasa: The Boy In A Box
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients on February 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Last year there were almost 250 patients cared for on Hope Ward. I am always inspired when I read the patient stories and I wanted to share this one in particular; in summary Mubiru’s story is: Abused by his grandmother at age 12, locked in a metal box, Rescued by his neighbours, Thought to be [...]
Meet Andrew
Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Retrak on February 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Posted from the Retrak website: Andrew was brought to Retrak from the International Hospital Kampala (IHK). A week earlier Andrew had been found lying half dead along Kampala’s railway line, a train had hit his left leg and crushed it. The medical staff at IHK were wondering how he could be hit by a train [...]
Please Continue To Support Us…
Posted in Cancer Care, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, Patients, tagged Dennis Odong, Jennifer Allison on January 29, 2010 | Comments Off
We had this comment recently from Jennifer, one of our volunteers last year: I have only recently discovered this sad news. I would like to thank all that have donated time and money to the Suubi Trust, International Hospital Kampala, and those at Hope Ward that took great care of him during the year of [...]
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