By Margaret Reynolds | Vice President
A young father arrives on the back of a motor bike with his seven-year-old daughter in arms. Limp and unresponsive, she has been diagnosed with malaria in a northern hospital, but she is too sick for their care. They have transferred her to this referral center with the promise of treatment. The hospital checks her blood and confirms the malaria diagnosis. They also confirm that she will likely die without a blood transfusion, but the hospital is out of blood. She cannot stay at this hospital. They must travel on. The father sobs. There is no money for transport to another hospital. Please do what they can here, or he will have to bring her back home without treatment.
Malaria cases are common in northern Uganda. Like the "flu" in America, thousands of cases are treated each week. We are fighting to prevent malaria and hoping to provide treatment to rural patients who may not otherwise afford it. We have submitted a proposal for hospital expansion in Katulikire to the Ugandan Government. You can help!
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