We have been able to support all of the following:

• We established a new TB Lab at the hospital in Kampala and helped to support the work of Dr Mark, Dr Grania and Bosco as they led the way in establishing and validating a new TB diagnostic method, MOTS. Target TB has recently provided a grant to help complete the clinical validation and initial phase of testing and treatments.
• In Lira, Northern Uganda, we have been providing primary healthcare to 250 patients each month since the start of 2008. This work has been supported by St. Peters Methodist School in Canterbury, Aspect Capital, Port-P, Wesleyan Assurance and Kuvuka Coffee. We provided funding for staff to receive training by the Ministry of Health and this team has recently started an immunisation programme for those living in and around Lira (immunisation drugs are supplied by the Ministry). In the second half of 2008, in addition to continuing the work above, we hope to start an HIV-AIDS community outreach programme in which the team will provide voluntary counselling, testing and treatments; in this initiative we are working with Hands of Help.
• We have provided various funding for care given to patients at Hope Ward. These have included a number of surgical procedures and cancer treatments. We have further supported Hope Ward by working with a number of organisations, including Cardiac Report Limited, SonoSite, Inverness Medical UK and Morriston Hospital Swansea, to provide much needed medical equipment; the value of which we estimate to be just over £40,000.
• We have just started a new project in Pader, Northern Uganda, where we are working with the Government to renovate, equip and manage the Health Centre. We are hoping that this facility will become the prime referral centre for this region and be a base from which we can perform community based outreach providing much needed healthcare. If we can find sufficient funding this will include perhaps up to 5 mobile clinics that can reach the most rural areas; this initiative is being heavily supported by Dunavant Cotton, HIPS and USAID.

We are absolutely delighted with the level of support received and want to thank you all so much.

There’s lots more to be done, together we can make a difference.

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• We received £125 from individual supporters in the UK.
• A sponsor gave £1,000 to help meet University fees for Bosco, our TB lab tech.
• Inverness Medical UK gave £511 in the form of discount for essential supplies to help support sugery in Hope Ward.
• In Kampala, Hwan Sung gave $30,000, to support heart surgeries in Hope Ward.

Read more about previous Giving here…

Thanks to continued support from:

• Hwan Sung Medical Charity Services
• Dr Clement Agyin and his colleagues in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Cheam
• Inverness Medical UK
• and the Medical and Support staff at International Hospital Kampala

the following will each recieve life changing care:

1. Simon (Valve Repair)
2. Mark (ASD Closure)
3. Abdallah (VSD Closure)
4. Linton (Valve repair )
5. Yvonnie (PDA)
6. Kenndey (Valve Repair).

Read more about our Heart Surgery Programme here…

Sponsorship has been pledged by Hwan Sung.

Essential consumables for the Blood Gas Analyser (provided in September by Cardiac Report Limited) have been purchased from Inverness Medical UK, which has kindly provided a very significant discount on its list price. Funding for these supplies has been given by the husband of one of Clement’s UK patients who wrote to us saying:

“With thanks to Dr Clement Agyin who helped save my wife’s life in St. Anthony’s Hospital in Cheam”

Clement’s work colleagues at St Anthony’s have raised funding to help buy the equipment necessary for the monitoring of 3 ITU beds; instead of buying Christmas cards and other presents for colleagues they put the money in a gift box for Clement’s work in Hope Ward, IHK.

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