We are really pleased that the Ministry of Health has
approved Kisiizi to have a Paediatric Intern to join our surgery and obstetric interns, rotating
with 3 months in each specialty. In
fact, the Ministry would like us to take two interns in each specialty and our
Management team have approved this goal.
Longer term, if we can recruit an
Adult Physician, we will then be able to have a medical intern also and the
rotation would be a full year.
This is a
significant development with the prospect of improving patient care and also of
making it much easier in future to recruit Medical Officers. We will have a big change over this week as
the new interns join us and we welcome new Medical Officers. This is all moving towards a departmental
structure and we hope will improve our clinical governance and allow better
medical cover especially supporting out-patients.
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One major excitement recently was the arrival of a
helicopter from Kampala to transfer a patient who needed further investigations
and support. Many people had never seen
a helicopter before, and as it landed on the primary school playing field a
large crowd gathered including quite a number of patients who left the wards to
witness the event!
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