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Thanks To The Kindness Of Strangers, She Now Stands Tall

Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, Physiotherapy, tagged 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 [...]

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Hope Physiotherapy Outpatient Clinic Report

Posted in Physiotherapy, Suubi Trust on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off

January 2010 – March 2010 The Hope Physiotherapy Outpatient Clinic has been operating since October 2008 for a total of eighteen months. This service is based at the physiotherapy department at International Hospital Kampala (IHK). The referrals in this period have continued to come from a wide variety of sources including Hope Ward, Watoto Children’s [...]

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Hope Physiotherapy Service

Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, Physiotherapy on August 22, 2009 | Comments Off

The Hope Physiotherapy Service (charity funded for those that cannot afford to pay) has been operational for 10 months. You can read a recent progress report here. Here’s an update on one of the patients being treated: Benon is a 19 year old boy from Nsambya. He was admitted to Hope Ward in April 2009 [...]

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Physiotherapy Clinic

Posted in Hope Ward, Physiotherapy, tagged on May 21, 2009 | Comments Off

Ruth Gracey, one of the Suubi Trust Trustees, writes: “On a recent visit to IHK I met physiotherapists Alex, Irene and Charlotte (Charlie), and saw the Hope Physiotherapy Outpatient Clinic in action. The clinic, funded by Suubi Trust, offers physiotherapy to patients who would otherwise be unable to afford it. Each patient is initially offered [...]

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Baby Enock in Physiotherapy

Posted in Hope Ward, 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 [...]

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Christine in Physiotherapy

Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, Physiotherapy on December 5, 2008 | Comments Off

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 [...]

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The Half Ireman

Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, Physiotherapy, tagged on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Saturday 13th September Sine took part in the Half Ireman to raise funds for the charity Physiotherapy clinic at Hope Ward. At the last count Sine has raised at least £300. After hearing about what was involved we’re very surprised that she doesn’t need physio as a result. This also seems to be a [...]

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Hope Physiotherapy Outpatient Clinic

Posted in Hope Ward, Physiotherapy, tagged on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Megan Davies has sent the October Report for the Physiotherapy Clinic being supported by Suubi Trust. She writes: The Hope Physiotherapy Outpatient Clinic service was developed over 2008 to provide necessary ongoing rehabilitation to those patients who were unable to fund it themselves. The clinic began admitting patients in October and, with the assistance of [...]

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Charity Funded Physiotherapy Clinic

Posted in Hope Ward, Physiotherapy, tagged , on September 29, 2008 | Comments Off

Earlier this year when I was visiting the team at the hospital in Kampala I was approached by Jo Kotchie. Jo was volunteering at IHK for 1 year, on sabbatical from her post as a Senior II physiotherapist at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, Greenock, Scotland. Since joining the team in October 2007, the main focus had [...]

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