OBERABIC HC ll

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

70 kilometres away from Gulu, in the impoverished Amuru district is our Oberabic HCll.

  

The building is modern courtesy of MAP international. The countryside  is beautiful. Locally there is no electricity, limited  access to water, poor schools  and exceedingly poor health facilities. 15 kilometres in one direction is a small hospital (Health Centre lll) and in the other direction a large population which until recently had no health  facilities at all. The Government is now trying to open a  small HC.

Staff Accommodation

HC Side View

We did an outreach and the photo shows the queue that immediately formed for immunisations.

 The population is poor. Even though the ground is very fertile most children have the pot belly of mild malnutrition. Family planning and maternity services are sparse leading to high maternal mortality.

Queue on Outreach

As ever, the greatest need is  combined with the poorest resources. The local government can  not pay  the normal health centre subsidy even though they have the money  paid by central government. The unit missed out on NUHP. The Unit has just got some help from a USAid project  (NU-HITES) and Marie Stopes international.

We have a passion to see this unit develop very significantly through extra equipment and staff to increase services especially family planning and maternity both at the unit, and on outreach. We have put resources aside for this.

Delivery Bed

There is a new in charge Paul and two good nurse assistants. We are looking to recruit a new comprehensive nurse. 

Monitoring in progress

The unit's remoteness means monitoring is a challenge but we are determined to see great improvements in the months ahead. 

Community meeting

To do this we will continue to work with the local community and management committee


We will update on progress. It is a great opportunity to radically improve the health care of a truly poor population

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