By Dave Hibbard, MD, MPH | Project Leader
My wife, Dr. Chris, and I spent the month of April, 2010, working at Kisiizi Hospital, in remote SW Uganda. We arrived with 50 insecticide-treated bed nets in our van, with another 100 nets to arrive after we left---all of them for use by the Hospital for staff and patients. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE STARTED THIS PROJECT IN 2005, EVERY SINGLE BED IN THIS 250 BED HOSPITAL HAD A BED NET HANGING OVER IT!!! Now we need to get more nets to patients in the community!
Kisiizi Hospital is located in South West Uganda about an hour drive north of the Rwanda border and an hour drive east of the Congo border (and the Ugandan Gorilla National Park). The hospital is powered by a waterfall which provides hydroelectric power----essential for running a hospital.
We take medical students from the University of Colorado School of Medicine to the hospital each year who work there for 6 weeks. So far we have taken 7 students there and they have a life-changing experience.
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