Care for All: Build a Mobile Clinic for Rural Gulu

In the past months, the medical team spent a lot of time in the community of Laliya village. The outreach team headed by nurse Bonny identified malaria and diarrhoea as important areas to test, treat and educate the community in.

“When we see more clients from the community suffering from a certain condition, we agree as a team to reach out in this community to address the problem from the source,” said Nurse Bonny. “The close partnerships that we have with the village health team, makes it easier for us to reach out to these villages. It’s our plan to add more services including antenatal care in our next visit,” he further explained 

In a bid to fight non-communicable in the communities, a clinic day has been set, once a week. The challenges of accessibility, affordability and availability of medicines to treat diabetes and hypertension has led to increasing numbers of this disease burden. This is made more difficult by the fact that few health providers are trained. It’s the plan to establish weekly clinic days and to train more health providers to handle more clients both at the facilities and in the community. “KCIU has taken the fight against non-communicable diseases seriously. The increasing numbers of clients with these related condition has called us to establish this service. We shall carry out more health education in the communities and on radio, “ said Hope the ED of KCIU.

The staff of Karin medical centres this quarter underwent training by EMR4DW- UK. The electronic medical records have led to less screen time and more patient time, easy – to – read summary puts the patient front and centre, designed to let you do your best, adjustable flow sheet controls, ordering made easy. “We hope to have reduced documentation and accurate data, I am happy that the staff have embraced this program very well,” said Antimo the clinic Incharge.

There is need to continously improve the services we are providing in the community. And this needs concerted efforts. We do not want to see the good work we have done go to waste.

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