Donate for Clinic Medicine & Staff @ Uganda Clinic

Our local community Health Center II in Agwata village, Uganda, continues to help the community stay healthy during these difficult times. Until recently, Uganda had about a 2% vaccination rate and in late May and June, most of its hospitals were at capacity treating patients severely ill with Covid-19.

Where Agwata is located in rural northern Uganda, it has experienced few Covid cases due to its remoteness. But nonetheless has felt extreme effects from the lockdowns, transportation limits, curfews, etc. as a result of Covid. So, our clinic staff and teachers were quite excited when recently in late September/early October vaccines were available for teachers and those needing their second shots, as well as other community members.

Agwata was fortunate that a medical team from the district came right to our local Health Center II to administer vaccine shots!

We thank you for your continued support of the clinic these past few months so that the clinic can respond promptly wherever and in whatever ways are needed to help safeguard the community's health and make sure that sufficient nursing staff and the most needed medicines are available to the community.

We encourage you to share this project update with friends, family and co-workers that might be interested in helping support this life saving health outreach to a very remote northern Uganda community!

Links:

• Our web site
• See our work through photos

We are very thankful for our dedicated clinic staff including Nursing Assistant Beatrice pictured in the photo.  Beatrice has many years experience as a nursing assistant and is dedicated to her job and to helping Agwata residents stay healthy.

Thanks to your support of this project, we can continue to pay our dedicated clinic staff including an additional clinic cleaner who helps keep the clinic extra clean and sanitized.  A first round of vaccines were distributed in March/April but the supply quickly ran out in our district in Uganda. They are currently awaiting additional vaccines as Covid-19 cases in Uganda continue to rise.  

We are thankful that our Agwata school teachers and most of the clinic staff received their 1 dose vaccine in the first vaccine round.  We hope more people will be able to receive their vaccines soon.  Some people remain afraid of getting vaccinated. Our clinic and project staff as well as district personnel need to help with sensitization.

In spite of heavier than normal patient visits at our clinic, we are thankful the clinic continues to be adequately stocked with needed medicines. We hope that malaria cases will decrease as  the first rainy season should end soon and the next couple of months should be a drier time of year.

Thanks again for your support to help keep our Agwata community and school children safe in these trying times! 

Links:

• See our work in photos
• Visit our web site for more information.