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Advent: Day 9 HIV/AIDS

Posted in Advent, Aldo Project, Hope Ward, Patients, Staff, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2010 |

  IMF has a number of community based programmes helping to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. We provide counselling and testing, help those who are negative to stay safe and for those that are positive we are able to help with treatment and care. Uganda has in past years been very successful in tackling this huge [...]

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Advent: Day 3 Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Advent, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , on December 3, 2010 |

I really like this photo which I took during an open day for the Touch Namuwongo Programme at IHK. It was just great to see so many of the local children taking part in the events in the hospital grounds. Our vision is that IHK would help to serve all of the people living in [...]

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A Day with the CATTS (Part One)

Posted in Patients, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2010 |

Dr. Grania is a key member of our team working on the development of and clinical trial for a new (faster – cheaper) diagnostic method for TB. She was back in Kampala last month and has posted this update on her Blog. A key aspect of our plan for the TB project has been to [...]

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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 |

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 |

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 |

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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Bwindi Community Hospital

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

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 |

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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Dennis Odong on Hope Ward 2008 – 2009

Posted in Cancer Care, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Patients, Suubi Trust, tagged , , , , on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It was with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to our favourite Hope Ward child Dennis Odong on the early afternoon of Thursday, August 6th 2009. Dennis had been with us for more than a year, we did our very best to treat him and he was very brave in his fight against cancer. Dennis [...]

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