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Suubi Trust Annual Returns

Posted in Cancer Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Since it was registered on July 2nd 2007, Suubi Trust has raised just over £200,000 to help support the work of International Medical Foundation, an NGO providing healthcare services to the financially disadvantaged in Uganda. Our key focus at this time is raising funds to build a maternity theatre at Charis Health Centre in Lira, [...]

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Jackie and Gary Raise Funds for Charis Theatre

Posted in Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, tagged , on November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been a bit slow in posting this one, sorry. Jackie and Gary are nurses working with Dr. Richard in the UK. They recently got married and instead of presents, asked their friends to give donations to Suubi Trust for the theatre build at Charis in Lira. They raised over 4 million shillings (about £1,000). [...]

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Target TB Partners’ Newsletter

Posted in TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Autumn issue has the following piece noting the BMJ award for International Medical Group. The newsletter can be downloaded by clicking here.

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Richard Feinmann on winning a BMJ Group award

Posted in International Medical Foundation, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged , , , , , on June 6, 2011 | Comments Off

Published on BMJ Blogs: Click here for original. I suppose I could be accused of banging on too much about doctors volunteering at the end of their career. But now I have another reason. At my age, I thought the days of national and international meetings were long gone. So, what a surprise to find [...]

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Uganda VSO Health Recruitment Film

Posted in Hope Ward, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Volunteers, tagged , , , on May 23, 2011 | Comments Off

VSO has been a great organisation for us to work with; each of the volunteers have made significant contributions to the development of our healthcare services at International Medical Group. This video features Dr. Richard and I am so glad to hear him say that he got as much from his time here as we [...]

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We are Winners!

Posted in International Medical Foundation, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2011 | Comments Off

The BMJ nominated us winners for the “Getting Evidence into Practice” award. The TB Diagnostics Lab was the very first project that I became involved in at International Medical Foundation, back in 2007. I remember being approached almost every day by Dr. Mark Russell (a VSO volunteer) who wanted to do something for the many [...]

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Shortlisted for BMJ Group Awards

Posted in Suubi Trust, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We are pleased to note that the TB project at IHK has been shortlisted for this year’s BMJ Group Awards under the “Getting Evidence into Practice” category. Thanks to Dr. Richard for making the submission. TB is a significant health issue in Uganda and our project, supported initially by Suubi Trust and then by Target [...]

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Advent: Day 22 Charis – IMC (Lira)

Posted in Advent, Charis - IMC Lira, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Over the last 3 years, I’ve had the great pleasure of watching our work in Lira grow and reach more and more of the people in that community with an ever-increasing range of services. Earlier this year we relocated to a facility owned by Charis, represented by Dr. Joel at the far left in the [...]

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Advent: Day 13 TB

Posted in Advent, Fund Raising, Staff, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2010 | Comments Off

The first project that Suubi Trust supported was the development of a level 2 bio-containment facility at International Hospital Kampala to provide a MODS TB culture and sensitivity service. That was back in July 2007. Since then we have completed the clinical trial and are now using the method to help diagnose patients from IHK [...]

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Advent: Day 10 Dr. Richard

Posted in Advent, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , on December 10, 2010 | Comments Off

This is Dr. Richard as many of us will remember him, enjoying being with the kids on Hope Ward. He made a huge difference in his time with us as a voluteer with VSO. There are more photos of him on the VSO website here. Even after their VSO stint was finished, Richard and Patricia [...]

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