Towards a thriving health community
Towards a thriving health community
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St. Joseph Health Centre (JHC) is a private community-based health centre registered at the Jinja District Health Directorate. It is located 15Km along Kamuli Road. It aimed at promoting integrated development through improved health. With poor health, It is unlikely that other human development aspects such as universal primary education, ensuring environmental sustainability, promotion of global partnership for development, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promotion of gender equality, and women empowerment can be realized. On the other hand, it is also close to impossible that such goals can be achieved using a top-bottom approach. On this note, there is a need to start the struggles from the grassroots levels i.e. Bottom-Top approach through Community-based initiatives.
St. Joseph Health Centre (JHC) is a private community-based health centre registered at the Jinja District Health Directorate. It is located 15Km along Kamuli Road. It aimed at promoting integrated development through improved health. With poor health, It is unlikely that other human development aspects such as universal primary education, ensuring environmental sustainability, promotion of global partnership for development, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promotion of gender equality, and women empowerment can be realized. On the other hand, it is also close to impossible that such goals can be achieved using a top-bottom approach. On this note, there is a need to start the struggles from the grassroots levels i.e. Bottom-Top approach through Community-based initiatives.
Where we are today
Where we are today
OUR ACTIVITIES
Provision of reproductive health services i.e. family planning services
Provision of clinical services to different ailment
Provision of maternity services i.e prenatal, delivery and postnatal services
Provision of primary health care services i.e. immunization and health education on preventive measures through sanitation, prevention of HIV/AIDs, Malaria
Provision of laboratory services to test different ailments including HIV/AIDs at a free cost
Research, documentation and dissemination of health care information
Building capacity through internships, volunteer services and short-courses
Advocating and lobbying for integrated health services.
Our successes
Our successes
The health centre also has the following available resources:
The health centre also has the following available resources:
1. Conducive Building with three semi-detached apartments with running water, electricity, sanitation facilities like pit latrine and placenta pit.
1. Conducive Building with three semi-detached apartments with running water, electricity, sanitation facilities like pit latrine and placenta pit.
2. Wide compound, conducive for community programmes
2. Wide compound, conducive for community programmes
3. Maternity facilities
3. Maternity facilities
4. Laboratory facility
4. Laboratory facility
5. Office furniture
5. Office furniture
6. 6 beds, mattresses and beddings
6. 6 beds, mattresses and beddings
7. 2 bedrooms for medical volunteers
7. 2 bedrooms for medical volunteers
Stock of medicines to different ailments worth 500,000/=
9. Medium size fridge
10. Experienced staff composed of: Project director, Enrolled nurse, a Laboratory Assistant and a Nursing Assistant.
Our challenges
Our challenges
The Centre has suffered the following challenges:
1. Poor health service seeking behavior which makes patients come to hospital when they are very sick.
2. The patients fail to pay charges and consequently, this creates financial burden to the Centre thus fail to meet the operational costs like buying medicines and laboratory reagents
3. Financial constraints failed us recruit staff like the laboratory technician
4. The centre has reached an extent of failing to pay staff at work.
Our Plans for Future
Our Plans for Future
FUTURE PLANS OF THE HEALTH CENTRE ▪
We plan to write some proposals to national and international agencies to solicit funds to run the programmes of the Centre. Among the planned proposals are:
▪ Hold an annual health camp for women in reproductive age. This requires inviting medical doctors and social workers to offer medical services i.e. medical check-up for cervical cancer, breast cancer, HIV/AIDs, sexually transmitted diseases, and training family planning services for one week.
▪ Hold an annual health camp for children. This will involve treatment of ailments, testing of diseases, immunization, teaching parents about nutrition, childcare and home care and sanitation for one week
▪ Hold an annual youth camp. This will involve voluntary testing and counseling other/AIDs, Sexually transmitted diseases and training in behavioral change for one week.
▪ Request medical volunteer to help in providing labour and fundraising for the Centre.
Where we are today
Where we are today
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