Care for All: Build a Mobile Clinic for Rural Gulu

Hallo friends,

We want to update you with our first 6 months of full operations! From January through June, we saw 1452 patients in the Karin Medical Centre in Agonga, Gulu and 3,023 patients at the Childcare Community
Health centre our second health centre based in Unyama in Gulu  2,451 females and 572 males. Our staff has
been working hard! 

We are all proud of the work that we do ," On the 24th of June, with the request from another community based organisation we held a surgical medical camp that was run by the local community members. They choose our
clinic to work from! How proud we felt!

Our staff had never had this opportunity and we were privileged and honored to host this event, because it would give our staff members the opportunity to carry our male circumcision, cervical cancer screening and HIV testing and
counselling. The waiting room and the surrounding area was was packed, but the staff immediately sprung into action. Ms Filder Anek the incharge medical officer worked as the assistant surgeon with Dr William. They worked as a team as Filder learnt from him as well.  Grace the midwife worked with the women who wanted to do cervical cancer screening after carrying out a small health education to them. Moses and Aaaron worked in the
Laboratory to get everyones details recorded and all the testing carried out accordingly, whilst Moses our administrator kept people people occupied with more health talk. On this day we called a volunteer clinician to see who we needed to be treated urgently and who could wait, and Robert continued to clerk and book in the patients who were waiting before 7 a.m. Our staff made a good effort to accommodate what we could, and that means a lot!"

We also have community volunteers who helped with immunisation for babies and expectant mothers eager to help us out – next week we shall continue with the family health day . Every day there are new challenges and
new gains – and it continues to be a great honor to do this work.

We are proud because you make it happen! Thanks to all of you for walking by our side on this meaningful journey.

Great Blessings,

N.B. We always have equipment needs at the clinic. If any of you works for an organization that may be able to help us, please let me know! You can contact me directly anytime at: cdo4uga@gmail.com

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The last months have been extremely very busy months with a lot of activities at the health center as the local people are being inspired by the services offered to them by the promising and hard working staffs we have.

Filder Anek, the assistant physician and her outreach team, are heading to Oyik village to carry out vaccination, deworming and testing in this community. When it rains mothers find it very hard to reach the health centre. Oyik village is about 4km away from the Karin health centre. They need to carry enough vaccines and medicines for the community who are waiting for them. They are expecting a big turn up because the health team has been moving around the villages giving information about today's activity. Many announcements were sent out. When we arrived the village centre, we found the notice was clearly put for all the community here to read.

There was a clear message on the tree that stands in the middle of the village. This tree is very symbolic, it has stood here for many years and has served many purposes including serving as the meeting point for the villagers, providing shade and also the land mark in this village. During the insurgency that lasted for over 26 years, the communities used this place to gather here whenever the WFP trucks delivered to them the much needed foods and medicines. To this day, the community has continued to use it as the market, for holding village meetings and it is here that Karin Medical Centre has decided to carry out health outreach.

For mothers like Alimo and her friends who sell snacks under this tree, it was convenient, because they do not have to walk to the health centre, with their children.

On this day, the health team vaccinated and gave out deworming tablets to over 70 children, and Antenatal Care to over 25 expectant mothers, the rest of the community was ready to listen to Filda educate them on health issues that is affecting their community. The local leaders who watched this exercise take place were very happy that we visited them. They are happy with our work and they hope that we will come back again. At the end of the day we were happy that we did this work, saving babies and mothers. We hope to continue with this exercise every month. Its through your funding that will allow health workers like Filda and her team reach the hard the reach areas and bring smiles on faces like mothers of children like Lajul get these vital immunizations that are taking the lives of many children in the community. Please do not stop supporting this cause and please tell your friends about the work that we are doing