Accountability...

It was apt that one of our current visitors, a Ugandan medical student who has previously worked with us as a Clinical Officer, spoke on the topic of accountability in Chapel last week.  He took the well-known parable of the Talents and the fact that we are all responsible to use our natural gifts and talents, and all that we have and are, to the full.
For, on Thursday, we had a visit from the District Health Officer [DHO] and his team to look at the Hospital and to inspect our record books.  It seems Kisiizi has sometimes been slow in sending in data to the district and at times it has been incomplete.  Walking around with the team affirmed many areas of practice but also highlighted some improvements needed and was a very helpful exercise that we hope to see repeated regularly.

DHO and team talk with a patient in Rehabilitation

The DHO visited the new operating theatres, built with support from St Paul's Church in Dublin under the supervision of our builder David Barratt, and was impressed at what he saw.  We then toured Maternity, Neonates and Rehabilitation unit having already seen out-patients including the dental, HIV and ophthalmology areas.

We look forward to working more closely with the DHO and his team in the future and share some important goals regarding Community and Public health.