We are grateful for a number of encouragements as we seek to raise the profile of Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital. This is important not because we want to blow our own trumpet but being located in a very rural remote area, there are challenges in recruiting key staff. So, for example, to ask a radiographer in Kampala to come to Kisiizi might be rather like inviting someone in Manchester to go and work in Iceland - their response would be the same "Why would I?! It's a long way away, it's cold, and they speak a different language"!
The launch of the Uganda : UK Health Alliance in Kampala on 15th October was attended by key leaders from the Ministry of Health including Ministers, Director General and the Permanent Secretary. The UK delegation was led by Lord Nigel Crisp who had run the NHS for six years. Also present were key people such as the lead for DfiD in Uganda.
We were greatly encouraged that Kisiizi featured very highly on the evening. One surprise was to find that the Permanent Secretary had been one of Ian's medical students decades ago!
Lots of opportunity to network with some key leaders and we have invited a number to come to Kisiizi as we hope this will encourage the Ministry to second key staff to us and increase our budget support.
The following week Ian attended the National Intern Committee and again was encouraged to find Kisiizi receiving much praise and support from the Chairman who is the executive director of the national referral hospital in Mulago.
To add to all the above, a couple of days later Ian had a phone call from the Chairman of the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council [equivalent to the UK GMC] whom he had met a few weeks ago at a meeting in Kabale. He wanted information about our Community Health Insurance Scheme to discuss with MP's next week.
We have also had Alia Fry's article about our amplification training for the WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety heading up the APPS newsletter this quarter, and have contributed a vignette to an article in Archives of Diseases of Childhood in UK and submitted an article for the Contact magazine of the World Council of Churches.
So we are grateful for these opportunities to raise the profile and pray for good fruit from it all.
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| Dr Lukwago Asuman, Permanent Secretary, with Ian |
We were greatly encouraged that Kisiizi featured very highly on the evening. One surprise was to find that the Permanent Secretary had been one of Ian's medical students decades ago!
The following week Ian attended the National Intern Committee and again was encouraged to find Kisiizi receiving much praise and support from the Chairman who is the executive director of the national referral hospital in Mulago.
To add to all the above, a couple of days later Ian had a phone call from the Chairman of the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council [equivalent to the UK GMC] whom he had met a few weeks ago at a meeting in Kabale. He wanted information about our Community Health Insurance Scheme to discuss with MP's next week.
We have also had Alia Fry's article about our amplification training for the WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety heading up the APPS newsletter this quarter, and have contributed a vignette to an article in Archives of Diseases of Childhood in UK and submitted an article for the Contact magazine of the World Council of Churches.
So we are grateful for these opportunities to raise the profile and pray for good fruit from it all.
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