The event will be held on Saturday 16th June at 7.30pm, with tickets costing £10.00.

For more information contact Ruth Boyce, South Eastern HSC Trust – (028) 9041 1547, or download the flier here.

The newsletter has been produced by the hospital to provide an update of the bigger picture of their work.

Click to download this issue as a PDF (1.3MB)

This special gift card provide much needed support for the work of the hospital and will make a long–lasting impact to our work.

For example, £10 would give us enough money to build a water tank of 300 litres. The tank is built by: 

• Excavating a large hole in the ground. 
• Building a retaining wall to keep the water in and the soil out. 
• Building two internal extra support walls, to keep the walls secure when water levels are low and to support the ‘roof.’ 
• Putting a concrete slab on top (with a hatch so we can get in to clean/repair the tank.) 
• Adding a handpump on top so the water can be easily accessed. 
• Guttering/piping the roofwater into the tank. 
• Waiting for rain. 

We have a number of these tanks across the site. They are much cheaper for the capacity than overground tanks. As the staff and patient population has grown we appear to have exceeded our present water supply capacity again. Various people have helped donate them in the past – any Bangor Rotarians may recall raising money for this in 2008.

If you would like to order a gift card, please download the order form from the CMS Ireland website 

http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2011/11/04/give-more-than-gifts-this-christmas 

Dr Ian Clarke was a GP in North Down before moving to commence the medical work at Kiwoko. The same was also true of Dr Rory Wilson before he moved to Kiwoko in 2006.

Many students, relatives, friends, colleagues have visited over those years forming many natural organic, relationship connections between many health professionals and the hospital.

Several years ago those connections became more formal when the then Ulster and Community Hospitals Trust nominated Kiwoko hospital as the ‘Chairman’s Charity’ for the year.

Following a seed corn grand from the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET) the link has grown further.
Two visits by Trust Staff to share skills and training with local Ugandan Staff have proved very beneficial.
From funds raised in the last 2 years a new X-ray unit has been constructed, and funds for a vehicle, equipping of pharmacy, and staff training have been donated.

Training of Kiwoko staff and students by SET personnel have focussed on radiography, palliative care, IT and management training. A refocusing of priorities has celebrated the huge improvements made by the radiography training and has highlighted the need for a fresh focus on building capacity in the hospital laboratory.

A further visit by SET staff is expected in March 2010. The fundraising priorities for this year are the running costs of the hospital Outpatient/Emergency/radiography department. The team at SET have been very busy, and further details can be found on the Trust website:

http://www.setrust.hscni.net/lnews/Kiwoko_Newsletter_June09.pdf

You can download a copy by clicking here (50KB - Microsoft Word format).

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