Oberabic

The Next Steps

Oberabic Health Centre

We are so excited at the progress in Oberabic where patient care and facilities are advancing together.

Oberabic is very remote and poor. It is a privilege to help such a destitute community where there is no electricity, poor water availability, very limited health care facilities and where many children show signs of malnutrition.

At the health unit, we recently financed the building of a two roomed maternity unit. This has been a success as a report from Nick posted above shows. To take progress further we have four advances scheduled.

1. Maternity Unit Equipment.

Two beds and a haemoglobinometer are needed. Money is set aside for these when Nick and Fiona make the request.

     2. Repair to Borehole



The health unit shares their borehole with the local  village. The water is now polluted with mud. This will take time to organise but we have money set aside for when it is.

Children collecting water

  3. Improvement of Staff Accommodation.

Staff have to live on the campus and the accommodation is terrible comprising of a small single room each with  an incomplete partition wall and no ceiling meaning it is cramped, affords no privacy and has no insulation -  Uganda can get vey hot. When we have proper accommodation we will be able to upgrade the health unit further by being more attractive to staff. This will be a big step forward.

This will take around £25,000. We have asked Nick and Fiona for a full estimate

Staff accommodation

   4. Apaa

As the post below shows the opening of this new venture was delayed on account of communal vilence. The unit opened last week with funds from Gulu Connection. It is in a very, very remote area more than an hour along the track from Oberabic. Our prayers and thoughts are with the nurse who is going to staff this facility. Being so remote she will face some very serious health issues. 

Apaa Unit in Operation

Pastor who came to open unit, with patients.