Today, nearly 25,000 children under age 5 will die of mostly preventable causes, such as diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia. We focus on ensuring child and maternal health by promoting health and nutrition practices and preventing major causes of disease.
i). this proposed project will set up a Pediatric Hospital and Three Satellite Health Centers respectively in all the above mentioned Three districts (Rubanda, Rwampara and Mbarara Districts) to facilitate our Community Based Health Care Programmes. The centers will have fulltime Health attendants to meet emergencies and will have well connected communication channels with the Little Angels Aid Ministry. The Centers will be equipped with all required equipment and a minor Operation Theaters. Round the clock Mobile Medicare services will be also provided through the centers. All causalities related to Cardiology, Gynecology, Eye Diseases, and Pediatric will be attended in the centers. Specialist for the Bas Ministry will continuously visit these centers and facilitate the services.
ii) Another major activities projected through Community Multipurpose Health center that will be providing all kinds of super special health services, it is also to build and equip all the medical department with modern medical equipment, apparatus and machineries. It has also been planned out to Pediatric Hospital buildings to start new medical departments, hostels for working staff including medical officers and nurses.
iii). Third component of the Project will be to start various medical camps in the remote villages including Medical Mobile Vans. 25 medical mobile vans are planned out to be launched av various villages each van will cover a total of 40 villages per month. This mobile van will have qualified doctors, social workers, counselors and pharmacists. The proposed van will in two shifts. In the morning shift it can visit one village and in the afternoon it can visit another village which is closer to the morning one. Each unit will cover a minimum of 8000 patients of per month and thus can serve at least 96000 patients per year. 200 patients can be examined and treated in one villages in a shift and thus through 25 of such units a total of 11,52,000 patients can be examined ant treated per year. The proposed vans will be launched in sixty five districts of Uganda.
Our contribution for reducing the backlog in the country Uganda is being well appreciated by local communities as well as Government departments.
To fulfill the said objectives, Little Angels Aid Ministry has been activity involved in the empowerment process through various government/ no-government programs and empowers grassroots communities through value based process.