Donate for Clinic Medicine & Staff @ Uganda Clinic

Besides being the main health center for over 5000 people in five villages and treating normal every day illnesses including malaria, intestinal and skin issues, coughs, colds and flu, our health center also has a maternity hut and can deliver babies at the clinic and provide a place for the new mother to recover for a day before walking back home with her new baby.

We've included a photo of the maternity hut along with this update. Expectant mothers are supposed to bring with them to the clinic all supplies that they will need for their delivery. It is fortunate that a bore hole is across the road at the school so the expectant mother does not have far to walk to get water.

After delivery, our clinic can provide continued care for the new baby.  The district health teams routinely come to our clinic to provide important vaccinations for babies and toddlers. Because our clinic is close, it is more likely that mothers will take time from their work in the fields to bring their children to our clinic for vaccinations and care when they are sick.

Thank you for your support of our clinic and its many valuable services to 5000 people including the very youngest members of our community!  Please share this update with friends and family who have an interest in public health and health care access for all, and especially for giving babies and toddlers the best start in life, and an opportunity to thrive!

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• Our web site
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Besides offering Covid vaccinations which we mentioned in our last report, the Agwata Health Center also offers many other kinds of tests and special clinics to community members.

Most of the clinics are sponsored by district health teams which come equipped with tents to set up and the necessary items for the special clinic.  In the photo here, many people turned out for the black flies infection testing in mid-December. These clinics offer valuable benefits over and above the regular health services and medicines provided day in and day out at the community clinic.

Last month (January) saw a large influx of students from our Agwata school which is right across the road from the clinic.  As the new school year began, many students arrived feeling sick and needed testing for malaria and needed malaria medicine if the results showed "positive". 

Parents and students were grateful that the clinic was close by to the school, could be easily accessed and actually had medicines on hand!  Untreated malaria can quickly become fatal especially to younger children. We remain very grateful for your continued support through this project, so we had the funds to purchase additional malaria medicine to cover the high numbers of patients last month and continuing into February.

Thank you  so much for your support of this project which provides for important daily needs at the clinic through medicines and staffing, as well as responding to Covid 19 special needs as they arise.

Links:

• Visit our web site
• See our work in photos