HIV[e]Education participants in Mpigi with their certificate of completion!
Mpigi
In 2006, two of the most inspiring female doctors
in Uganda, Dr Cissy Kityo and Dr Ceppie Merry, started a new model health care
center in the Mpigi district, known as the Mpigi Millennium Project. A new
Health Center at Mpigi town, about 40 km from Kampala, was built and the clinic
opened in November 2006. The team has been fortunate enough to raise enough
funds to secure free anti-retroviral drugs and is busy equipping
the clinic. The clinic will also be used to care for non-HIV related illnesses
that are common in the area such as diarrhea, chest infections and malaria.
Improvements to Health Centers 2 and 3 in this district are on the way, in order
to offer counseling and testing programs and refer patients to the new clinic at
Mpigi.
Health[e]Foundation was happy and proud to help with the setting up of the
clinics by providing 12 computers and printers to support this project.
Health[e]Foundation also started a HIV[e]Education training program in the
district in December 2006 to train all 48 health care workers involved in this
inspiring project from Mpigi. It was amazing that, although most of the
participants did not have any previous computer experience before they started,
all of them passed the HIV[e]Education program with very good results.
