Care for All: Build a Mobile Clinic for Rural Gulu

I feel like we always start these updates with something  along the lines of “this was a busy month.” The reality is that every month is a busy month at the our health centres.  The pace of the last three months has obviously been no different. These months has included finalizing our annual reports with the government, finalising strategic documents, several trainings for our staff, staff  from neighbouring clinic visiting our clinic and outreach sites to carry out family planning, immunization and antenatal care in our community.

We are always grateful to our friends and supporters for standing with us the last three months since we last communicated with you. The following are details of how each service offered at the clinic has been running.

A. OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT:

CATEGORY            0-5 YEARS                5 YEARS AND OVER

                           Male         Female         Male      Female

New attendance    423           409              137         264

Re attendance        04             04               00           04

Total attendance    427          411             137         268

We registered the highest number of Out Patient Attendance (OPD) under five this month in this quarter i.e 838 children were attended to this was contributed by the cooperation of our Village Health Teams (VHTs) and dedicated staff who have helped to improve the relationship between staff and clients. We plan to motivate our VHTs more in order to promote quality service provision. The most common conditions seen in the units this month were RTIs, Acute diarrhoea, malaria, skin conditions. Intense health education about the ways in which we can prevent this disease is what we will carry out in order to reduce the number of children suffering from this condition at the clinic and in our outreaches. All mothers seen at OPD are being encouraged to carry their child health card and we registered a success in this. All children attended to are being weighed.