Milly 6yrs old from Iganga district was admitted to Kiruddu hospital with severe burns of the upper limbs, trunk and left leg. This young girl got burnt while the mother had left home to go to the nearby bush to collect long grass to be used as a compound broom. In less than an hour’s […]
KS (patient’s initial) is a 20 year old woman admitted at Mulago Hospital Diabetic unit. She left her parents’ home in Sembabule district 6 years ago to go to Kampala (about 132 Km) in search of employment. This followed her failure to complete primary education due to lack of school fees. Being the eldest of […]
KJ is an 11 year old boy who was admitted to the High Dependence Unit (HDU) ward of Mulago hospital, by his mother. KJ’s problems began at birth when his father abandoned the family just a few days after he was born due to family misunderstandings. This left KJ’s mother with the responsibility of five […]
Today we are visiting NM, a 68 year old female hailing from Sembabule, a victim of physical assault due to land wrangles. This has become a common phenomenon in Uganda due to the high population growth and land fragmentation issues. NM can now fortunately move her head from side to side. Her journey for the […]
FE (Initials for the patient’s name) 3yr old boy, whose parents left Rwanda to seek refuge in Uganda a few years ago, although unregistered with refugee commission, they were able to find shelter in the nearby locations. They originally settled in Mubende district and started subsistence farming which would get them food to eat but […]
Brian is one of the patients that we have been privileged to attend to over the last few months. This 17year old was involved in a motor vehicle accident and sustained many injuries along with a fractured femur bone. This accident was very debilitating. Brian was on the verge of sitting for his senior four […]
Hurdled on the bed under light brown bed sheets which have seen many washes is 15 years old Nalunkuma Angella. She is being attended to by her mother who also appears tired due to the many months spent on hospital floors in search for a cure for whatever is ailing her daughter. Angella problems started […]
Eden Drasiku was a one month old baby boy admitted in “Mwanamugimu” Nutrition ward in Mulago Hospital. He was suffering from congenital hydrocephalus and severe non-edematous malnutrition secondary to his cleft left lip and palate. He was being attended to by his 24 year old mother, a housewife and his father Mr. Alex Bandua, a […]
SUPPORTING A PATIENT WITHOUT AN ATTENDANT AMIDST A CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENT We are seated in our weekly meeting as always listening to challenges encountered during the week and making plans of how to improve our service delivery more so at a time as this when wards in Mulago hospital are being moved for renovations to take […]
Here lies a little princess called Lovinsa Ampaire on her hospital bed. She narrates the ordeal of how her family got involved in a fire burn as a result of petrol that the father used to sell to sustain his family. She is aged 10 years and of a school going age, but with an […]
