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 […]
“Is this it?” I asked myself on the morning of my graduation day. It had been an intense year of school, nothing like any educational program I had experienced before, but the grace of God carried me through it. Basking in the celebratory mood of my recent graduation, I took a mental walk-through of my […]
