By LUBWAMA RONALD | PROCUREMENT OFFICER
Thank you everyone for supporting our Emergency ambulance project.
It's very important for us, to have it in our hospital and to prove it, there is one story from our volunteer:
"It had a bittersweet tint last night that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
At midnight I was called for an emergency when I ran there, I found a completely histeric girl who was screaming, grinding and not letting anyone touch her, after a while fell away and almost breathing.
Her hemoglobin was 1.4g / dl (ie one tenth of the norm) She was in critical hypoxia and it affected her psyche like this.
Her mum had already gone to 5 hospitals with her and none of them had blood and just sent them away. Unfortunately, we did not have compatible blood. We called everything we could because this little girl was out of time and we found one blood bank that had 100ml of compatible blood. (This is very little, but enough for the time we needed to transport)
We loaded the little girl into the car with an oxygen cylinder and set off for a 20km distant blood bank in Iganga.
During the journey, the little girl began to gasp, so I immediately took the ambu bag and exhaled her for 5 minutes before waking up and starting to breathe with me.
We successfully arrived at Iganga and collected the blood. We got back in the car and drove to Kampala, 80km away.
Attaching the little girl to the transfusion was a struggle, I ended up bitten, scratched and with my uniform spread, but in the end we washed it and joined the transfusion.
We drove to Kampala as quickly as we could, I with my hand out the window as high as possible to get a cant and at least a little drip. Sometimes the little girl woke up from a half-sleep and fought with me over the oxygen prongs or the cannula, but after a while she always calmed down and slept.
It went uphill and downhill, and we had to breathe into it several times and support it with adrenaline.
We arrived in Kampala hospital after 4 am and handed over a pretty stable girl to the emergency room. There she was immediately switched to another blood transfusion and we calmly went back to Jinja.
It was an incredibly difficult awakening night full of uncertainty and fear, but I counted on myself and did the best I could - well, and we saved a child's life, and it was worth all the effort."
As you can see, it's very difficult for us to operate without an ambulance. But still we are not afraid to use a personal car, improvise and do everything to safe an innocent children life.
Imagine what we can do with an actual ambulance.
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