Health briefs
May 29, 2007
<b>Kakira gets Medical boost</b><br>JINJA - KAKIRA Hospital has received medical equipment from Bermuda Hospital staff in Caribbean Islands to boost its service delivery. The donation that cost $300,000 (sh507m), was received at the hospital recently by Kakira Sugar Works General Manager Richard Or
Kakira gets Medical boost
JINJA - KAKIRA Hospital has received medical equipment from Bermuda Hospital staff in Caribbean Islands to boost its service delivery. The donation that cost $300,000 (sh507m), was received at the hospital recently by Kakira Sugar Works General Manager Richard Orr and Medical Superintendent Dr. Michael Katende.
It included wheel chairs, crutches, artificial limbs, Doctors’ gowns, patients’ clothes and medicines packed in twenty three boxes. Orr said Mary McCabe, wife of Mike McCabe the director of East Africa Holdings Limited, who visited the hospital last year and was impressed by services offered to patients, mobilised the support. The hospital serves about 10,000 people.
Media, medical form alliance
ENTEBBE - Media and medical professionals have formed an alliance at re-positioning family planning and reproductive health in East, Central and Southern African. The alliance was formed after a two-day workshop on Family Planning and gender based violence which was organised by Uganda association of Obstetrical and Gynaecological Societies at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel. The alliance will try to bridge the gap between members of the two professions. The Regional Centre Coordinator for Quality Health Care, Dr. Kidza Mugerwa blamed many failed programmes on failure to involve the media.
Stigma hindering use of HIV kits
KAMPALA - Representatives from over 15 HIV/AIDS care support organisations discussed the problems of the basic care package/kit that was launched in 2004 as part of an HIV basic preventive programme.
The kit contains a water container, two mosquito nets and condoms among others. During the one-day workshop organised by Population Services International (PSI) at Kabira Country Club, Dr. Haruna Lule, the Superintendent Gombe Hospital in Mpigi said people did not want to be seen with kits because of the HIV stigma.
Over 200,000 people are to receive kits during the five years of the programme. To date, PSI has distributed over 110,000 basic care kits in Uganda.
JINJA - KAKIRA Hospital has received medical equipment from Bermuda Hospital staff in Caribbean Islands to boost its service delivery. The donation that cost $300,000 (sh507m), was received at the hospital recently by Kakira Sugar Works General Manager Richard Orr and Medical Superintendent Dr. Michael Katende.
It included wheel chairs, crutches, artificial limbs, Doctors’ gowns, patients’ clothes and medicines packed in twenty three boxes. Orr said Mary McCabe, wife of Mike McCabe the director of East Africa Holdings Limited, who visited the hospital last year and was impressed by services offered to patients, mobilised the support. The hospital serves about 10,000 people.
Media, medical form alliance
ENTEBBE - Media and medical professionals have formed an alliance at re-positioning family planning and reproductive health in East, Central and Southern African. The alliance was formed after a two-day workshop on Family Planning and gender based violence which was organised by Uganda association of Obstetrical and Gynaecological Societies at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel. The alliance will try to bridge the gap between members of the two professions. The Regional Centre Coordinator for Quality Health Care, Dr. Kidza Mugerwa blamed many failed programmes on failure to involve the media.
Stigma hindering use of HIV kits
KAMPALA - Representatives from over 15 HIV/AIDS care support organisations discussed the problems of the basic care package/kit that was launched in 2004 as part of an HIV basic preventive programme.
The kit contains a water container, two mosquito nets and condoms among others. During the one-day workshop organised by Population Services International (PSI) at Kabira Country Club, Dr. Haruna Lule, the Superintendent Gombe Hospital in Mpigi said people did not want to be seen with kits because of the HIV stigma.
Over 200,000 people are to receive kits during the five years of the programme. To date, PSI has distributed over 110,000 basic care kits in Uganda.