We now count 38 days to the 28th May Medical Mission. Since 2013 FoHA has chosen to organize Medical Missions, Reaching out to unreached Rural communities with poor access to Health care.
This year again we are going to Namutumba District in Eastern Uganda. The District is 2 h 20 min (156.6 km) from Kampala (Capital of Uganda) with a population estimate of 253,260 people. This time we have risen our target to 1000 patients in the two mission days . As a way of ensuring that each patient gets to see a doctor with full medication, We have enrolled more volunteer Doctors and Nurses on top of working closely with the nearby Health Centers. With the team ready to go, it leaves us with a task of raising medication for 1000 patients we intend to to work on during the Mission from 28th - 30th May. It costs $25 for a patient to receive treatment during a Medical Mission and also to screen a woman for Cervical Cancer.
This year again we are going to Namutumba District in Eastern Uganda. The District is 2 h 20 min (156.6 km) from Kampala (Capital of Uganda) with a population estimate of 253,260 people. This time we have risen our target to 1000 patients in the two mission days . As a way of ensuring that each patient gets to see a doctor with full medication, We have enrolled more volunteer Doctors and Nurses on top of working closely with the nearby Health Centers. With the team ready to go, it leaves us with a task of raising medication for 1000 patients we intend to to work on during the Mission from 28th - 30th May. It costs $25 for a patient to receive treatment during a Medical Mission and also to screen a woman for Cervical Cancer.
The risk of Cervical cancer is high among the women in this area with the fact that most of them got into early marriages and the rate at which they are giving birth is too high. Polygamous marriages are so common and HIV is also at its highest. This is a community where the responsibility of caring for the family lies greatly on the women. They earn very little from subsistence farming and so very hard for them to prioritize their health above the other family needs including educating their children.
Not responding to their health needs directly means there is no one left to care. They will work so hard but later die and leaving their children with no one to take them to school, The circle of poverty will continue and the communities will not develop.
Through Medical missions we get the chance to save these women and the children through sensitization and early detection of diseases that would lead them to losing their lives if no response is taken early enough.
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