A Clinic in Uganda

The health situation in Uganda is dire. According to the 2009 Human Development Report for Uganda, life expectancy is only about fifty years and there are only about eight physicians per 100,000 people. One particularly hard-hit region is Katerera in the Bushenyi District in Western Uganda, where some 40,000 inhabitants suffer from disastrous health conditions and a lack of basic medical knowledge.

Now, Childneed Africa—specifically its founder Mawanda John Bosco—wants to turn this fate around by building and managing a facility to provide a wide range of medical services, but also to educate, among other things, about malaria prevention, family panning, and HIV prevention.

Key Distinctions

The clinic has presented a comprehensive concept to prove its sustainability. It will be able to make sufficient profit to finance free emergency care for anyone who can't afford to pay for it.

The project maintains complete transparency, in that the project can be visited by anyone, and anyone can view all its accounting data.

The project is completely non-governmental and non-profit.

Furthermore, it is local to the region. Mawanda John Bosco was born in Uganda and lives there.

The Clinic

Mawanda's proposal for the clinic includes mobile medical workers who drive into the rural areas in order to provide medical assistance and to educate. They can also administer HIV/AIDS tests and transport patients.

At the clinic, patients who can afford to pay for their treatment are cared for in a private area of the clinic, so that the proceeds can be used to finance the free treatment and mobile service for children and families who otherwise could not afford it. Once the clinic is well-established, the medical workers are to be paid a small salary if possible.

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