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The Aldo Project: Field Visit Report

Posted in Aldo Project, Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Patients, Volunteers, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Clea sends the following report: During a recent visit to Lira International Medical Centre (IMC), Kevin Duffy (CEO) and Clea Meynell (IMF Funding and Reporting Manager) spent some time with Trixcy, the Aldo Project Counsellor. Trixcy has been working as a volunteer on the Aldo Project since 2008 providing help and support to Jasper Okwir, [...]

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Kampala Bombings: UPDATE Ssemwogerere Francis

Posted in International Hospital Kampala, International Medical Group, Volunteers, tagged , , , on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Diane, a VSO from the UK, works with us at IHK and on Sunday night she came in to help in ICU. One of her patients, Francis, has just regained consciousness and Diane has sent this message… Today when I went on my daily visit to Francis and a few others in ICU I was [...]

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Richard Feinmann on malaria in Lira, Uganda

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Group, Volunteers, tagged , on June 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I am re-posting a recent update from Dr. Richard about Malaria, from the BMJ Blog here http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/05/25/richard-feinmann-on-malaria-in-lira-uganda/ >>> Working as a doctor in Northern Uganda I wonder where to start with healthcare. Since 75% of diseases in Uganda are preventable and since there are very few health workers and little money, especially in a country [...]

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Fighting Malaria in Lira: Gloria Mercy

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Patients, Volunteers, tagged , 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 [...]

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Fighting Malaria in Lira: Ronald

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Patients, Volunteers, tagged , 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 [...]

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Update from Dr. Richard

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Sponsors, Suubi Trust, Volunteers, tagged , , on May 16, 2010 | Comments Off

Dr. Richard posted the following update about his work at our health centre in Lira, north Uganda. We are working here in collaboration with Charis and Fields of Life. You can read Richard’s Blog here. >>> Half way through our time now so back to Kampala for debrief. We prepared a list of areas we [...]

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I wish it were that easy!!

Posted in Fund Raising, Suubi Trust, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on May 3, 2010 | Comments Off

Dr. Alison has been a great help recently on our Touch Namuwongo programme. She has helped to establish some new treatment guidelines, especially for cervical screening and the STI clinic. She has just posted this on her blog … >>> …front page headline of a national newspaper yesterday!! Then another bit of classic primary prevention [...]

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Bwindi Community Hospital

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Suubi Trust, Volunteers, eQuality Health, tagged , , on May 2, 2010 | Comments Off

Some of you will know that Dr. Richard and Pat Feinmann have returned to Uganda for three months to help us with the planning for our HCIV in Lira (a Health Centre 4 is a small community hospital, the equivalent to what we used to call a Cottage Hospital). Richard is keeping his Blog up [...]

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Richard Feinmann, Chest Physician, Uganda

Posted in Volunteers, tagged , on December 12, 2009 | Comments Off

The following was originally posted on the VSO website. Chest physician Richard Feinmann is volunteering with VSO in Uganda, where life expectancy is just 51 and over a third of the population live in poverty. Here Richard describes some of the challenges facing patients and why exposure to these challenges is so crucial for UK [...]

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Dr. Richard trains 83 volunteers.

Posted in TB Lab, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on August 24, 2009 | Comments Off

This week Dr. Richard provided TB training for local volunteers in preparation for Phase 2 of our TB programme. Interesting day yesterday. I have mentioned our HIV outreach clinic “Touch Namuwongo”.Since TB and HIV are interlinked the 110 community volunteer workers from Touch came for training about TB. I don’t think I’ve ever done a [...]

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