Providing Bednets to 200,000 Ugandans
Mosquito nets for Africa hospital
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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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: $2,402
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $57,597
Total Funding Goal: $60,000
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This project has provided additional documentation in a DOC 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
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Dave Hibbard, MD
Project Director and Co-Founder
3712 Wonderland Hill Ave
Boulder, CO 80304
United States
3036045049
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Kisiizi Malaria & Health Care Project
3712 Wonderland Hilll Ave
Boulder,
CO
80304
United States
303--604-5049
http://www.christinehibbard.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Uganda
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 29, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Bed nets for Ugandans
By Dave Hibbard, MD, MPH - Project Director, August 17, 2009 02:27 PM
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