We do medical outreaches in the slum areas of Kajjansi, a place commonly named as ‘Kajjansi line’ due to its congestion and the nature of settlement, being messy with grass thatched and ramshackled houses where men and women (old and young and young), feast on the local breweries day and night. Our medical Program also priotizes communities where Health care services are hard to reach. Working with a team of doctors, we offer free HIV testing and counselling services, we offer Health Education services, testing and treatment for malaria as well as treatment for other medical illnesses, we also do basic wound care at the outreach sites. With a vast majority of young people who endulge in unhealthy lifestyles like drug abuse, unsafe sexual practices, we also carry out sexual and reproductive services (SRH services), offering a number of youth friendly services.
You don’t need to be a medical person to volunteer, If you would like to volunteer through our medical program, Please contact us through our contact details and we shall get back to you as soon as possible. Our medical program is a holistic program, that we happen to interact every day with young people (young girls and boys), and these are our main focus. Within these ages, there have been increasing rates of new HIV infections amongst young people, increasing rates of early pregnancies, and increasing rates of school dropouts amongst young people.
We carry out a community health sensitization program (with HIV awareness and reproductive health awareness amongst young people).
We manage a number of medical illnesses (malaria, Respiratory infections, Urinary infections, STIs, other Bacterial infections), iron supplements and mama-kits are given to pregnant mothers (in Uganda usually pregnant mothers are turned away at the time of delivery when they don’t have mama-kits, and usually some of them cant barely afford to have one even at the time of delivery, it’s sad that some can suffer psychologically as well as pregnant related complications at the time of birth due to delayed attention).
We do deworm and give vitamin A supplementation for children, we do malaria testing, HIV testing, and counseling, Health education programs (young girls are trained on how to make sanitary pads), and we take blood pressure measurements and make appropriate follow-ups, linkages and referrals to nearby Health centres.
