Uganda - Bwindi Community Hospital, 2011 (17 images)

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  • Elderly patients arriving at the gates of Bwindi Community hospital, Uganda. The hospital is in the town of Buhoma on the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable forest. It serves approximately 150,000 people in the area. Buhoma is one of Uganda's remotest towns, just 2 kilometres from the boarder with the Democratic Republic of Congo. A four-hour drive to the nearest tarmac covered road.

  • Patients line up and wait to see one of the doctors at Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda. The drop in clinic for the community runs every morning. Doctors see patients suffering from a wide variety of health problems; malaria and malnutrition are very common. The young girl sleeping while se waits with her mother has malaria.

  • Brenda with her 3-week-old baby using the neo natal facilities at Bwindi Community Hospital. Her baby was born was 7 weeks premature, due to the carefully planned facilities there is a high chance of survival for all premature babies born at the hospital.

  • Nursing officer Mereth fits a cannula to a 5-day-old baby that was born 9 weeks premature at Bwindi Community Hospital. Due to the carefully planned facilities and drugs available there is a high chance of survival for all premature babies born at the hospital.

  • Nurse Christine Happy walks through the children's ward checking on patients at Bwindi Community hospital, Uganda. Standards of patient care and cleanliness at the hospital are extremely high.

  • Baby Shemeririwe is only 5 days old. She was premature, born at 30 weeks term. He mother stays with her in the neo-natal unit at Bwindi Community hospital, Uganda. She is about to have a cannula fitted so she can receive Dextra that will help with her early development.

  • Hanipha, Cathy and Sylvie are all expectant mothers staying in the hostel for expectant mothers in the grounds of Bwindi Community Hospital. Most pregnant women in the area have to travel long distances to get to the hospital for their births and this can cause complications. The staff at the hospital felt this was a very useful addition to the hospital and it also means they can be monitored in the late stages of pregnancy.

  • Bwindi Community hospital medical staff run an out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district. After a 2-hour drive and a 2km trek the team arrives in the village to administer child check ups and run a vaccination program. It is18 km to nearest health centre and 40 km to hospital.

  • Bwindi Community hospital medical staff run an out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district. They run nutrition and health programs for mothers and their children. Andrew Kaggwa the registered nurse leads this one on a healthy diet during pregnancy.

  • Women from Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district, wait with their children to attend the community out reach clinic. Bwindi Community hospital provides several clinics every day in the local area. The mothers and children receive nutrition information and vaccinations from the hospital nurse.

  • Nurse Agnes from Bwindi Community hospital prepares and administer the vaccination program during the out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district. She administers Polio and measles vaccinations to newborn children in the community.

  • Bwindi Community hospital medical staff run an out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district. As well as nutrition and vaccination programs they also monitor all the babies health. Rev Sam head of the Bwindi community hospital outreach program weighs each of the children attending.

  • Nurse Agnes from Bwindi Community hospital prepares and administer the vaccination program during the out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district. She administers Polio and measles vaccinations to newborn children in the community.

  • Andrew Kaggwa the community nurse from Bwindi community hospital leads a health education and nutrition training session with classes P 3,4,5,6,7 at Nyamiyaga primary school.

  • At Nyamiyaga primary school Bwindi community hospital run health outreach programs. Children play a sight test game with each other. Bwindi Community hospital cover 32 primary schools and 5 secondary schools in the region.

  • At Nyamiyaga primary school Bwindi community hospital run health outreach programs. Rev Sam, the head of community health works with the children on health issues using song and dance. They cover 32 primary schools and 5 secondary schools in the region.

  • Children from Nyamiyaga primary school in Uganda after their community health program run by Bwindi Community hospital.

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