Olimai Health Centre
Kumi District, Uganda
Olimai Health Centre
Kumi District, Uganda
The Olimai Community Healthcare Centre was constructed in 2008 in Olimai Parish, Kumi District, NorthEastern Uganda. Prior to the establishment of this clinic, the community members might have to go 8-30 km to get health care. Of course, with poor roads, limited means of transportation and widespread poverty, this paucity of health facilities in the region limited access to most people.
The Health Centre
opened in December 2008 and provides Level 2 care to the region (triage, treatment of minor conditions, HIV counseling, immunization, prenatal care and emergency deliveries, basic childhood illnesses.) The catchment area has expanded to other 4 parishes giving total population of about 13,500.
CanAssist has funded the development of a rainwater collection system and storage tanks for the clinic to provide clean water for clinic use where none is readily available. We have received notice Mid March 2011 that this project is complete. Congratulations to all.
CanAssist has supported other rainwater catchment projects at schools and clinics in Kenya and Uganda. We uniformly get reports that the tanks fill easily during the intermittent heavy rains and having readily available clean water is a boon to running a clinic.(Imagine not being able to have clean drinking water, wash your hands or cleanse wounds at a clinic.)
CanAssist and the Olimai Clinic speficially thank the families of Drs Bruce Perkins, Elizabeth Stephenson and Geoffrey Hodgetts for their support of this project. Canadian physicians assisting their colleagues in Africa!
In June 2011, CanAssist supported purchase of$2400 of medical equipment for the Clinic. Some of the items purchased included a delivery bed, sterilizer, lab equipment including a new microscope, baby scales and an infant ambu bag.
Letter of appreciation to CanAssist from the Olimai Clinic - August, 2011
CanAssist will explore other ways in which we can support this vital community health centre in a very needy part of rural Uganda. Your donations can help us to help them.
