Help Fund a Children's Burn Unit in Uganda

Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital treated five children with burns in the past three months. We have greatly helped these children and the community in many aspects including providing a clean and safe environment for their healing especially in relation to the materials used for wound dressing for example new crape bandages, free sterile gauze among others. Some of these materials are reusable in other health centres where some of our patients are first admited before coming to our Hospital. This exposes these children to infections.

Whisper also helps these children and the community through impacting knowledge in order to create awareness about how to prevent injuries caused by burns. This is done especially at the Hospital where by all the caretakers are gathered in small meetings to be sensitised about different conditions.

Above all, Whisper offers and provides these children with the most up to date medical care in the process of treatment and management of these injuries. We have excellent staff with knowledge on management of burns. This is most evidenced by the many number of burns patients we treat and fully recover inluding one of the patients who was treated last month, a 4 year old girl who sustained third degree burns of 36 surface area. She sustained the injuries one week prior to admission at Whisper and she was being managed from a certain health centre. She was poorly managed receiving only IV treatment without dressing. The wounds became very septic and the child was not improving. The mother was told about Whisper and when she brought the child she was managed excellently and within a week's time the child was discharged.

We thank you so much for supporting us and donating to this project. So many lives are being saved.

Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital is considered one of the best Hospitals in Jinja that treat burns. Basing on the findings at our Hospital, children under five years of age are greatly affected by burns. The community benefits from our hospital through our dedicated support towards the children who have sustained burns.

Some of the burns patients are treated for free because of the economic situations at their homes whereby the caretakers cannot afford the burns treatment bills at any hospital whereas a fews patients are charged some little money for the daily dressing which cannot even be compared to the costs incured during the treatment of burns.

We also impact the community through taking the children who have sustained complications due to burns for further management. This sometimes involves fundraising for plastic surgeries, skin grafting among others. In a month we receive around five children affected by burns and most of these burns are very severe but we go the extra mile to save the children's lives.

Some of the major causes of burns among children of below five years is economic status. Most of children come from deep in the villages where poverty is excess. Families live in small single roomed houses and thats where they cook from making it easier for the children to get burns accidents while playing.

We thank you so much for donating towards this project. So many lives of Ugandan children are being saved.