From the 7th to the 10th September this year Roger Wormald be undertaking the London to Paris cycle ride covering the 300 mile route from Crystal Palace to The Eiffel Tower. He’ll be riding for Kisiizi Hospital to thank the Reading Urology Partnership who undertake two pro bono trips each year to the hospital in…
A new staff accommodation block of eight individual dwellings is nearing completion. This much needed accommodation has been funded by Kisiizi Partners, thanks to a generous gift from the Allen family in memory of their daughter Katherine. Kisiizi Hospital has continued to expand, and this means more staff, all of whom need somewhere to live.…
Livingstone is 36 years-old. He sustained an open fracture of his tibia and fibula in a boda (motorbike taxi) accident. Fearing the cost of hospital treatment, he went to a traditional healer who covered his wound in a potion and, as a result, Livingstone developed a severe infection. He will have to spend much more…
Alison is a 28 year old, male, teacher who was diagnosed with typhoid fever. He developed severe abdominal pain and became very ill. As sometime happens as a complication of typhoid, he suffered a bowel perforation. Thanks to life-saving surgery at Kisiizi he is on the road to recovery. A contaminated water supply was identified…
Ann Moore the Sister in charge of the Special Care Baby Unit at Kisiizi sent us this tale of how one child’s survival depended on the unit functioning as a high dependency / intensive unit recently. Mugisha Hope was born at home at the beginning of November. She did not cry at birth and did…
This beautiful little girl was tragically brought to Kisiizi having been with her mum on the back of a motorcycle when their clothing became caught up in the rear wheel and pulled the child’s leg down causing very serious injury. She sustained a fracture of her femur near the right hip joint and very severe…
This little girl arrived in Kisiizi unconscious. In fact, it was as though she was anaesthetised as she did not respond at all to even very painful stimuli. Her Glasgow coma scale was 3, the lowest score. There was no clear history of what had happened. She had been playing with friends and had seemed…
Sitting in Doha airport with a couple of hours to while away before I board for the final leg of my journey home I am reflecting on the last six weeks in Uganda. The maternity department has seen a flow of really difficult obstetric emergencies and I have encountered several situations I have never had…
Anna, the widow I mentioned a few days ago,came to Kisiizi and delivered a baby girl. I found her on the ward on Thursday, the day I had promised her that I would visit her with one of the social workers from our orphan project. She was keen to go home and was waiting in…
Warning: this blog does contain some graphic medical descriptions which you might find upsetting. The day began well with beautiful sunshine as we walked to the Hospital Chapel for the morning service. Half way through the service a midwife came to fetch me for an emergency and we rushed to labour ward, to be met…