This year we bought about $9,000 worth of medicine in Uganda. Here, my wife Anita (on the left), and Jeanette Deebo (one of our nurses) waits while Ajay from the pharmacy works on our medicine bill.
Betty Luziira (left) who is the head administrator for the Jinja Children's Hospital, goes over the order of medicine that's being purchased with money we brought.
Betty in action, tallying supplies.
Part of our medical order being packed at the pharmacy.
More packing at the pharmacy.
Loading up the truck with medicine for the Jinja Children's Hospital and several other clinics.
Still loading...
The entrance to the Jinja Children's Hospital, one of the nicest children's facilities in Uganda.
Unloading more supplies at the children's hospital.
The staff helping to bring in the supplies.
The waiting area outside of the Jinja Children's Hospital
... and the waiting area inside the hospital.
One of the wards in the Jinja Children's Hospital.
The Jinja Children's Hospital sees well over 100 children per day.
Nursing students making rounds.
Since we started bringing medicine to this hospital in 2001, hospital staff estimates that the “morbidity rate” has dropped from 110-140 children per month to under 30 per month.
That means that an average of 100 children per month are being saved by the medicine we bring.
The hospital says that between the medical supplies we bring from the US and the medicine that we buy in Uganda, we provide about 85% of the medicine and supplies that this hospital uses each year.
The HIV/AIDS section of the children's hospital, which is kept separate from the rest of the hospital.
A typical sign on the wall of the hospital.
Mother's stay with their children in the hospital, as the facility provides no food for the children - only a bed and medical care (when available).
A mother and ill daughter - just one of the children helped by the medicine.
Another child helped by the medicine delivered.
Mothers and children.
This young one had full-blown tetanus, and was not expected to live out the day.
Receiving treatment.
One of the doctors on staff at the hospital - according to our nurses, very well trained, but under-equipped.
A young one getting an IV in the “emergency room” - one of several patients sharing this room.
On behalf of all of these young ones,
thank you for your care and concern.
Because of the medicine provided to this children's hospital,
it's estimated that over one thousand lives are saved each year.
I'm involved in this work because of my faith. Whatever the reasons for your interest, thank you. If you'd be interested in learning more of how you can help, email me at john@jdkmusic.com. Again, thanks! John Keltonic
