Dr Ambrosoli Memorial Health Centre
Dr Ambrosoli Memorial Health Centre is based in the small rural town of Kaliro, near Iganga in Uganda. The centre, run by an amazing couple - Margaret and Denis Onyot - and supported by FOAG employee Peter Owor, is predominately maternity, although it treats other illnesses such as Aids and Typhoid among others. The centre is also part of a local scheme, whereby the brilliant nurses go around to villages in the area, and immunise children and new-born babies. Being the only (decent) health centre in a 100 square mile radius or so, the centre will provide thousands of people with a reliable and efficient health unit.
Between April and May this year, Laura Griffith-Jones and Emily Colville, who run the project, returned to Kaliro having raised substantial funds. Over the space of one month, they were able to achieve the following:
- An extension onto the health centre: it can now hold 30 in-patients in female, male and children's wards; it also has a fully stocked pharmacy, a maternity ward, examination room as well as a lab for medical testing.
- The whole centre has all the furniture, mattresses, blankets, pillows, sheets etc it needs (inc new beds, shelves, tables, cupboards, chairs)
- It also has running water (from a new rain water collection system) and electricity for lighting and the new fridge.
- The centre has most of the medical equipment it needs now and medicines to last for a year at least.
It's been an amazingly successful project and continues to be so, with the team at Ambrosoli working hard to make the centre completely self-sustainable through farming, a health centre canteen, the pharmacy and of course fees.
Plans for the future include: installation of solar electricity, tiling the bathrooms to make them much more hygienic, more high-tech medical equipment, a television to show health programmes in the waiting room, among others. Every penny helps, so if you'd like to make a donation, be sure that it will be much appreciated and put to very worthwhile use.
Project Coordinator: Laura Griffith-Jones
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