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Providing Bednets to 200,000 Ugandans
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Summary
This project supplies mosquito nets to 300 staff at Kisiizi Hospital, Uganda, and the 200,000 patients served by the hospital, preventing them from getting malaria.
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Received $710 from 10 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Malaria globally kills over a million people each year most of whom are defenseless children.
Malaria is the most prevalent disease of patients presenting to Kisiizi Hospitall and it also disables many of our capable staff. Providing insecticide treated bed nets to patients and staff and educating them on why they should use the nets, how to care for them and store them will reduce the death and disability from malaria.
Activities
Each patient admitted to Kisiizi Hospital will be given a bed net and personally educated as to why they should use it, how to hang it, care for it and store it. Since most of these patients have malaria, they are highly motivated.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $710
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $59,290
Total Funding Goal: $60,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will provide bed nets for as many as possible patients of Kisiizi Hospital thus ending the cycle of repeated attacks of malaria and repeated cycles of death and permanent disability from this preventable disease.
Project Message
"All of the nursing students are supposed to have mosquito nets when they start nursing school. Only about 10 of the 100 students have them. AND WE HAVE NO NETS FOR THE PATIENTS ON THE WARDS."
- Sister Hazel of the Nursing School, A 78 year old British nursing instructor
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 22, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 29, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
Providing bed nets for 200,000 Ugandans
By Dave Hibbard, MD - Director & Co-Founder, Kisiizi Malaria & Health Ca, August 22, 2008 02:00 PM
Latest Update from the Field
Bednets have saved lives!
By Dave Hibbard, MD, Project Leader, August 16, 2008
Since this time last year, insecticide treated bed nets are now hanging over each bed in the Pediatric, Isolation, Maternity and Rehabilitation wards of Kisiizi Hospital in remote Southwest Uganda. The nurses who staff these wards at night report that they, the nurses, are no longer being bitten by mosquitos at night, just by having these bed nets in place. The insecticide chemicals provide a barrier to mosquitos extending out about 15 feet ! We now need to get bed nets for the 6 other wards of the hospital and for the families of the Kisiizi Hospital staff. Your donations can save lives. Please help us.
Dave Hibbard, MD
NEW Email: drdave@indra.com
UPDATE on Personal Overview
Dave Hibbard, MD, MPH, Project Director
Now on the Faculty of the Global Health Center of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Christine Hibbard, Ph.D.- Co-founder
Now on the Faculty of the Global Health Center of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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