By Jane Nakasagga | Project Leader
We would like to thank you for your generous donation towards this project. Your donation has helped us save many lives of anaemic children and mothers in Uganda.We have so far raised $ 3,490 out of $18,000 as our goal with a balance of $ 14,510. With that, we would still like to ask for your continous donation towards our project so that we continue saving a life.
We have managed to open up a free sickle cell clinic since last month which is usually open on every Wednesday of the week from 8am -6pm, and this has increased on the number of anaemic patients that we have always treated. The fact that most of the sickle cell patients come in crisis and with completely low HB. Therefore in the last three months, we have treated over 225 anaemic patients.
We as Whispers Magical Children’s Hospital continue to make good use of the available resources we have, to satisfy our patients to our best possible potential.We are in preparation of starting to check every employee of our hospital's Blood groups so that they can help us with donations in case of crisis especially with those patients with rare blood groups like O negative.
O and A negative are very rare blood groups to get in Uganda yet we keep getting emergencies and referals from other facilities. for example last week we received an 11 year old boy who was rushed in from a government facility for blood and reached him here with a VERY LOW HB of one!! and he was of O negative, good enough we had just received some blood from the blood bank and we immediately had to do a double transfusion on both hands to save his dear life.
Last year we organized a blood donation camp at our hospital and we were able to raise at least 75 units of blood. All those that donated blood were given sugar, rice, biscuits and soda and we are looking forward to repaet it within this year.
We appreciate you so much for your generous donation towards this project. Your donation will help save many lives of anaemic children and mothers in Uganda.
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