Cooperation partners

The working group cooperates closely with a branch of the order of the Daughters of Divine Charity, the Mother Francicsa Lechner Health Unit II in Rushooka, about 100 km west of Mbarara. The sisters of the order who live there run a health centre that provides medical care for people from the entire region. Among other things, they screen the population for HIV infections, treat HIV-infected people with medicines provided by the WHO, treat malaria epidemics, vaccinate the population, run a laboratory for the basic diagnostics of blood, metabolic and infectious diseases, maintain a small pharmacy and teach people about health care, hygiene and child-rearing. All this is done by nurses and laboratory technicians.
In 2018 construction began on a maternity clinic, which has since been completed but whose opening has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The European visiting physicians of the Skin-Clinic often offer their help and come to Rushooka for a weekend to examine and treat patients with skin diseases there and, if necessary, to arrange transport to the Skin Clinic.

More information on the Daughters of Divine Charity: https://daughtersofdivinecharity.org/getting-to-know-us/