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The Hospital project is born from the Love of
God Almighty for the poor.
We, medical missionaries from Korea, have been touched by
the suffering of the poor people of Uganda. Most of them are
unable to afford basic treatment for even treatable diseases.
Our vision is to see that the poor in Uganda is assisted through
provision of competent medical attention to the needy so that
their life-span is prolonged to enable them to serve the Lord.
In Genesis 2, God revealed his wonderful love by creating
a paradise and put mankind there. Since Adam¡¯s fall, however,
human beings have been under the curse and suffer from various
diseases and hardships. The God of love sent his One and Only
Son in order to do the work of regeneration. God wants us
to live healthy life spiritually and physically.
Jesus summarized the life of Christians in Matthew 22:37
and 39, ¡°Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your mind.¡± ¡°Love your neighbor
as yourself.¡±
Through this project we want to share the love of Jesus with
the poor in Uganda and we have a conviction and feel positively
that our contribution will be worthwhile.
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Uganda is a landlocked country in the Great Lake
Region of Africa and lies astride the Equator. It has an area
of 241,139 sq. Km of which 18% is open water and swamp. According
to 2000 estimates, Uganda¡¯ population is 22 millions.
** The Medical situation of Uganda **
During the 1960s Uganda's health delivery network was regarded
the best among sub-Saharan countries. However, since the declining
of socioeconomic situation started, the situation changed
drastically.
Communicable diseases have been increasing and became predominant
and still continue to reflect the prevalent pathology in the
country. Current estimates indicate per capita expenditure
on health for Uganda, of US$ 9.8 (1995-1996); This is below
the per capita amount, recommended by WHO, of US$12, (and
even below the SSA per capita average of US$19) which would
be sufficient to provide health for all.
Major causes of Morbidity in Uganda are Malaria (19.2%),
respiratory infections (18.2), intestinal worms (7.4), Diarrhea
(5.2) and Trauma (5.0). The 5 major causes of mortality are
infectious diseases that might be treated properly if there
are good facilities.
Uganda is estimated to have an infant mortality rate which
is about 9% higher than the SSA average and 70 % higher than
the average for low-income countries. According to the data
from Tuberculosis association of Uganda in 1996, the cure
rate of sputum AAFB(+) tuberculosis in Uganda was only 36.9%.
The mortality rate of patients in medical ward was 19% at
1997. Such high mortality is somehow resulted from high prevalence
of HIV in Ugandan people, however, we must confess that many
patients who could have been saved with proper treatment died
due to various reasons.
There are 98 hospitals in Uganda. 55 of them belong to government,
39, to NGOs and 4, to private. There are total 23,717 beds
including Maternal units and AIDS post. This means 1.18 per
1,000 population.
There were about 20,000 health professionals in the country
in 1996. 70% of them are in government service, 28% in NGO
service and the remaining 2% in private practice. There are
about 1000 medical doctors (20,000 people per doctor) and
as many medical assistants. The country counts 41 schools
of which eleven operated by NGOs.
In general physical assets, as well buildings as equipment
are in deplorable state. Most of the health care infrastructure
is in a major stage mal-or non-function because of the lack
of maintenance. Many buildings have reached the stage where
repair would be more costly than the construction of new facilities.
As far as the equipment is concerned, there is hardly any
equipment available and when it is, it is provided by NGOs
or other bilateral aid programs. In cases where new equipment
has been provided, there is a lack of supplies to make the
equipment function which makes the investment of the "gift"
useless.
The government knows such situations and has been trying
its best to improve this situation, but still most problems
have not been solved partly due to lack of finance, partly
due to low morale of medical staffs. At this setting, while
many poor patients are dying, the rich usually go abroad to
be treated spending a lot of money.
Most importantly, the most miserable problem in medical field
is lack of sense of responsibility in medical persons. Those
who care for patients lost pride as medical persons. Therefore,
proper treatment could not be given to desperate patients.
There are many problems to be corrected. However, the most
urgent thing to be corrected is lack of commitment of medical
persons.
We do not have enough number of medical person or medicines,
but such things can not be corrected in a day. So at present,
the most important thing we must try is to motivate medical
workers. Because of collapsed medical system, they have lost
morale and do not do their duties properly. In turn, their
uncommitted work demoralize others again. We must cut this
vicious cycle. Therefore, the education of medical person
should be emphasized and given properly to them.
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1.To share the love of Jesus with community.
2. To give proper care to patients.
3. To have reliable and responsible medical staffs.
4. To get reliable laboratory and pathological results.
5. To have essential medicine any time.
6. Not to spend money in foreign countries for medical reason.
7. To educate medical staff.
8. To study infectious and tropical diseases.
9. To train the local community. |
We have purchased a place that has two small buildings
for the mission clinic near Makerere University with 80,000
USD sent by Korean UBF (University Bible Fellowship).
Hanbi electrocommunication co. (CEO Mr. Jinhyun Kim) donated
35,000 USD this year. We are renovating the purchased buildings
for the mission clinic as the first step of the mission hospital
project.
We will buy a good land for the hospital as soon as we get
more money.
Afterward, we can shift into the purchased land and expand
the hospital with the provision from God.
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