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Richard Feinmann, Chest Physician, Uganda

Posted in Volunteers, tagged , on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 health [...]

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Dr. Richard trains 83 volunteers.

Posted in TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged , , , on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 whole [...]

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The Flip Side becomes a book

Posted in Hope Ward, TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged , on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Grania Brigden (Price) worked at International Hospital Kampala as a volunteer, with VSO, for one year up to September 2008. She and her husband Dan kept their family, friends and supporters up to date on their experiences via their Blog, The Flip Side of the Coin.
The Blog has now become available as a book [...]

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I’m not a Doctor BUT I can do numbers

Posted in Hope Ward, International Medical Group, Volunteers on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In an earlier posting I mentioned that for a hospital to operate well we need, in addition to Doctors and other Clinical staff, a wide range of non-clinical expertise.
Much of my time over the last few months, and indeed during my time over the last 2-3 years as a non-exec Director, has been spent reviewing [...]

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I am NOT a Doctor

Posted in Volunteers on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In recent months I’ve had an increasing number of contacts from those who have read this Blog and started thinking about maybe coming out to Kampala to help at the hospital or clinics. Often they, and I, are not immediately clear about what they could do when they get here; what would [...]

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Interns and Volunteers Required.

Posted in International Medical Group, Volunteers on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

International Medical Group is the leading private provider of health care services in Uganda. There are three main divisions in the group and our model is similar to that of HMOs in the USA:
1. IAA Health Care provides Health Schemes to employers for their employees and families and also some personal schemes. These schemes meet [...]

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