3 things you must do!

1]   Visit the Kisiizi website

 

2]   Look out for the total lunar eclipse this Monday April 14th, it should make the moon appear a reddish colour.  Our son Mark brought this to our attention.  Interestingly the moon will be very near to Mars in the night sky, and Mars itself will be at its nearest point to earth, something that only happens every 2 - 3 years...



3]  Book to come to Friends of Kisiizi Day at Greyfriars Church in Reading on Saturday June 28th

Some of those present at Friends Day 2013

Suits you!

Well, it is indeed an unusual sight, Moses and Ian in suits!  This was due to them going with Bishop Patrick Tugume, Chairman of our Board of Governors, to represent Kisiizi at an important meeting in Kampala. 

Some of you supported us in prayer as we met with the Acting Managing Director of the National Social Security Fund to discuss some unexpected issues that had arisen. It proved a helpful and constructive session...

Photo quiz...

This photo was taken in Kisiizi... what is it?

A night at the theatre...

One of 3 main theatres funded by St. Paul's

Our surgical department does extraordinary work on a wide variety of patients.  We are so grateful to St. Paul's Church in Dublin who have not only funded our new Operating Theatre block but have also very generously contributed to the salary of our second Consultant Surgeon, Dr. Robert.  Prior to all this they had donated the funds for the 2-storey ward block with Maternity and Children's Wards so they have truly gone the second mile in helping Kisiizi.

Removal of an inhaled foreign body in a child

In addition to our general surgical cases we have periodic specialist camps.  We recently had a plastic surgery camp with AMREF doing cleft palate corrective surgery and we also appreciate Dr. Keith Waddell and his team from Ruharo in Mbarara coming regularly to do eye surgery especially catarracts. 

Dr. Robert will be going to Kampala in May for 2 weeks to work with CoRSU Hospital to further develop his orthopaedic skills whilst Dr. Gabriel is now doing some quite sophisticated urology procedures and plans to introduce endoscopy in the next couple of months.

part of the newly refurbished area not yet officially opened

 This all needs the support of the Anaesthetics team, Lab, Pharmacy, Imaging etc etc and we do appreciate the hard work of Staff to help many patients.
 


We now have also been able to renovate one end of the original flax-factory building that was the core of Kisiizi when it opened in 1958.  We again appreciate support from churches, organisations and individuals to enable this to be done. The photo shows the floor being washed and the new curtains made by Doreen Wadsworth in place.

Sam, Infection Control Nurse; Dr Alex (WHO visitor) and Dr Robert

Following the success of our work with World Health Organization last year we have now launched the Surgical Unit-based Safety Programme (only Kisiizi and the national referral hospital in Mulago are running the programme in Uganda and only 3 other hospitals in Africa).

We recently had 2 visitors on a WHO assessment of the programme and they joined us for a small celebration of the successful launch together with our visitors from Chester to set up the microbiology lab.


Yet at the end of the day it is all about the patients...

 This lovely child needed surgery for a neglected left leg where infection had destroyed a significant part of her tibia and a bone graft was required.

And this young boy had arrived unconscious with a fractured skull after being hit by a speeding motorcycle.  He needed surgical elevation of a section of skull bone.  As you can see, he bounced back!