Sleep well...

As we upgrade our Surgical services with the new operating theatres opened some months ago thanks to support from St. Paul's Church in Dublin, we have recognised the importance of the Anaesthetics service. 

We are grateful to Dr. Neil Fergusson, Consultant from Chester who joined us for a fortnight, and to Dr. Angela Cooper, Consultant from Peterborough who worked with us for six months via Church Mission Society. 

We currently have an anaesthetic registrar from New Zealand, Mark Fisher, with us for 2 months.  All have helped our own team develop skills.

We are delighted to have installed two new anaesthetic vapourisers, one donated by Dr. Angela Cooper and the other by the Kessel family who visited Kisiizi recently.  This equipment replaces some very old kit that has served very well over decades but has really reached the point of unreliability.  It is used for halothane administration for general anaesthetics.

These improvements are timely as we welcome our new Consultant Surgeon Dr. Robert Mugarura to Kisiizi following his three year specialist training.  He joins Dr. Gabriel Okumu, our lead Surgeon who will be travelling to UK at the end of September for four weeks.  He will represent Kisiizi at the Friends of Kisiizi Day on Saturday 5th October at Greyfriars Church in Reading.  He will spend 2 weeks at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and then two weeks at Countess of Chester Hospital.  During this time he will refine his urological skills and learn new Endoscopy skills.  We are grateful that he has been granted a Commonwealth Fellowship to support his trip.