
A total of 8 doctors of various disciplines, including dentists and ophthalmologists, participated in the day. There were also 13 non Rotarian medical staff, including nurses.
Altogether, 31 Rotarians from the Jinja Club were involved in the organisation, running, chaperoning, counseling, assisting medics, setting up and maintaining equipment, as stewards and medical professionals.
During that one day of Medical Outreach, 785 people were seen, diagnosed and treated. As you can see from the photos, it was such an important day in their lives that they all wore their only best clothes to attend the clinic. But most are still shoeless.
Many people had multiple ailments and were seen by several specialist doctors as well as other professionals, but they were only counted once regardless of how many medics they saw.
The most common treatments were for: malaria, bilharzia, toothache (which resulted in the removal of the tooth), de-worming - including ring worm, other fungal infections, wounds, wound infections, jiggers, eye problems -especially in the more elderly patients. Other illnesses were diagnosed and patients referred on for further treatment, where necessary and possible.
Funds supplied by the Rotary Club of Havant - UK, to enable the Rotary Club of Jinja to arrange this day of Medical Outreach, were
utilised in the purchase of drugs, ointments, disposable medical equipment (syringes, swabs, bandages, test tubes, microscope slides, etc) and travel allowances for non Rotarian medical staff – 13 in number.
Funds were also used in mobilisation, e.g. mobile truck with radio announcements and the making of banner for display at the centre which served the purpose of giving the local people knowledge of the venue and date for the Medical Outreach and confidence that the help they would receive would be free and sound as well as giving credit to the Rotary Clubs who cooperated to arrange and fund the medical help.
To contact the Rotary Club of Havant please see their website:
www.havantrotaryclub.org.uk
To
contact the Rotary Club of Jinja please email William Okello
(International Projects) at:
logistics@picfare.com
or
willingokello@gmail.comEveryone at the Rotary Club of Havant, UK
would like to thank their fellow Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Jinja, Uganda,
for enabling us to give this care to the people of Naziri, Budondo. We are deeply indebted to you for giving us the opportunity to work with you in providing medical treatment for people who might otherwise not receive it.
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