Providing Bednets to 200,000 Ugandans
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Providing bed nets for 200,000 Ugandans
By Dave Hibbard, MD - Director & Co-Founder, Kisiizi Malaria & Health Ca, August 22, 2008 02:00 PM
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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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New bednets distributed!
By Dave Hibbard - Project Leader, August 15, 2007 10:07 PM
We just returned August 9, 2007, from 3 weeks at Kisiizi Hospital where we distributed free Insecticide Treated Mosquito Bed Nets to the Nursing Students (90) and staff (over 300) of the entire hospital. The students and staff were thrilled with their new bed nets. We were shocked to find that only 20% of the staff and students had a bed net. They now have bed nets thanks to your generous donations. When the staff get sick with malaria, the hospital care for patients is severely compromised. Our next step is to get more bed nets which we can take out to the villages. Please help us with this effort.
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