Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, tagged VSO on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Amina was brought to Hope Ward by a wonderful lady who was on a VSO placement in Masindi. She had served so many ladies as a Traditional Birth Attendant in her community. However a motorcycle accident left her relying heavily on a pair of crutches unable to bear weight at all on her broken leg.
Amina [...]
Posted in Volunteers, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann, VSO 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 [...]
Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, tagged Bead for Life, Mildmay, VSO on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday November 15th 2009 saw over 300 runners gathered at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala to take part in the Hope Ward Fun Run. Many were taking the opportunity to preview the 10km course for the following week’s MTN marathon.
The day was an enormous success with UGX 3,320,000 (GBP 1,072) raised through generous donations [...]
Posted in TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann, TB, Touch Namuwongo, VSO 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 [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged Dr. Grania Perceval-Price, VSO 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 [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, Staff, TB Lab, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann, HIV/AIDS, VSO on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What to do when you are a sexagenarian physician who has retired from hospital practice with 40 years in the NHS under your belt and golf/Sudoku not really appealing? Well, my health visitor wife and I applied to Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and I am writing this from a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, where I have [...]
Posted in Hope Ward, tagged Dr. Richard Feinmann, VSO on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi from Hope Ward in International Hospital Kampala!!
My name is Richard Feinmann. My background is 30 years working in the NHS in the UK and I am working in Hope Ward in partnership with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO).
Since coming, I have already seen so many medical problems; sick little babies, surgical patients, cancer patients, HIV [...]
Posted in Suubi Trust, tagged Duncan Smith, Helen Lay, VSO on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At IMG we are committed to our vision to make a difference to health care in Uganda. Our emphasis on quality standards, continuous improvement and excellent services to our patients are the core pillars that inform our practice. We also believe that in a country where there is paucity of skills or skilled personnel, we [...]
Posted in Staff, tagged Duncan Smith, VSO on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Duncan is now more than 6 months into his planned 2 year stint as a VSO Nurse Educator working with us at International Hospital Kampala.
He is having a great time and has contibuted so much already.
Read more here…
Posted in Staff, Suubi Trust, tagged Helen Lay, VSO on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Helen Lay has just joined us in Kampala as a VSO working with the Finance and Management team. Helen is planing to stay 2 years which is a great commitment…
Helen Lay
I was born in Lusaka, Zambia and lived in Livingstone (near Victoria Falls) until 1974 when my family moved ‘back’ to England – arriving in [...]
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