Twins
During a period of seven days towards the end of the month, we delivered three sets of twins. All the mothers and the babies are doing well, the nurses, midwives and the doctors are working extremely hard to ensure that all the mothers who come to the Hospital deliver safely.
Abia comes from Nyamigoye about 45 minutes drive from the Hospital. This was her first pregnancy, she was full of smiles.when she came to the Hospital for prenatal care and the midwives told her that she had twins. She continued coming for checkups until a week before delivery when she came to stay in our waiting mothers’ hostel.
Angela was referred from Nyamwegabira Health Unit two days before delivery. She was not aware that she had a twin pregnancy until our midwives carried out a scan on arrival at the Hospital. This was her sixth pregnancy but she had only two children who were still alive. With the twins safely were delivered, she is now a happy mother with 4 children.
Eunice comes from Kayonza about 30minutes drive from the Hospital. She has had a passion for twins since she got married and this was her first pregnancy. She started coming to the Hospital for prenatal care when she was two months pregnant. She stayed in our waiting mothers’ hostel for one week before delivery.
Family planning
The family planning team has been on an extensive campaign to encourage mothers to have smaller families and slogan has been, “Smaller families are richer families”. During the month of July, we were privileged to receive visiting Doctors from Stanford University(USA), Amy and Lynne training our staff and the community in one of the family planning methods. We have so far trained 68 community volunteers on the use of intra uterine device and postpartum intra uterine device.
A team of 28 nurses, midwives and Doctors have also been trained on how to use and insert the intra uterine device. The volunteers will be referring mothers to the Hospital where the nurses will help them use this family planning method.
We are incredibly grateful to Amy and Lynne for all the services they rendered during their stay in Bwindi.
eQuality Health Bwindi
As we continue to sensitize the community about the eQuality Health Membership Scheme, we have made big strides in the month of July registering 12 more groups. This brings the total number of groups to 30 with a total of 5200 members subscribing to the scheme.
