Project a laboratory and a first-aid station in Uganda
Docemus, at the instance and invite of local community, is considering the possibility of realising an analytical laboratory with first-aid station in Uganda, Kagadi Town, in the NW of the country, approximately 5 hours away from the capital Kampala, 2 of which on dirt patch. It’s a rural town of about 30 thousand people, expanding. Of late, in July 2012, Kagadi and its district, Kibalee, were on the world’s stage for the Ebola virus outbreak.
Two Docemus collaborators went on an exploratory mission in the second half of June 2013, thanks to the financial support of SIBioC – Società Italiana di Biochimica Clinica e Biologia Molecolare Clinica (Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology).
With the financial support of the Italian Society of Clinical Chemistry (SIBioC), DOCEMUS was back in Kagadi Town in August 2014, having received a formal invitation from the local Authorities of the town and of the Kibalee district. The mission was aimed to check the possibility to use some of the area of the Kagali Town Hospital to install a Blood Bank, that was lacking in that hospital.
DOCEMUS had many meetings with the local Authorities of Kagadi Town and of the Kibalee District. After a conclusive meeting in Kampala with the Director of the Uganda Blood Transfusion Service , Dr Dorothy Kyeyune and the Health Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, a number of rooms of the Hospital were allocated for the purpose. DOCEMUS is now waiting for the formal assignment of the area. Some of these spaces will be soon used to install the Blood Bank, while the remaining ones will be renovated in a near future to move there the Central Clinical Laboratory, in order to have these fundamental hospital facilities assembled together in a unique department.
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Report - Uganda 2014 (1.6 MiB)
