Uganda - Busiest month ever for Hospitaller Work (April 2018)
April has been a very busy month. The Whisper Foundation, fully endorsed by the Order of St. Lazarus, have treated 1452 patients just in this month of April. It feels so wonderful having managed to save so many lives of Ugandan children at our hospital.
This month we have spent 25,959,900 Uganda shillings (£5,173) on drugs, laboratory supplies and consumables.
We have managed to transfuse blood to 94 patients in the month of April. Every month we receive quite a big number of Anaemic patients and this could be caused by sickle cell disease and malaria.
We have received 7 burns patients which is more compared to the 4 patients received last month. We receive these patients when they are in a very bad state and we work as a team to ensure that they get healed.
We have had 6 malnourished patients in the month of April all these malnourished little children come from villages especially in the Eastern region of Uganda where parents cannot even afford a balanced diet and even luck what to eat.
One of our patients in the Emergency ward who was referred from Faith Medicare with Acute Bronchiolitis
April has been a very busy month especially with the shifting of the hospital items including beds, apparatuses, records among others.
Most of the beds have been removed so as to arrange the new hospital which is going to officially be opened on 14th of May 2018. So many patients are coming in as shown in our hospital report and we could not close the hospital so that we first finish with the shifting. This is because we are about saving lives of many Ugandan children. Therefore some of the patients are temporarily receiving the treatment on the mattresses that are laid down. We apologise for the inconveniences caused during this process.
Some of the mattresses being improvised in the general ward so that patients receive their treatment as the shifting of properties takes place.
Our long awaited maternity ward in the new hospital. This is going to help us monitor so many pregnant women so as to limit the pregnancy complications and save more lives.