Less than a year ago, only 20-30 patients trickled in per day at the Bugobero Health Center in rural Uganda. Today with Kissito’s support, clinic staff treats over 300 people a day, including kids like elevent year-old Darius.
Kissito operates the Sipara Maternal, Newborn and Child Hospital (MNCH), with an additional six hospitals either under construction or run in collaboration with government.
Our clinic in Bugobero alone is treating this many patients and is currently making upgrades to become Manafwa District Hospital, the referral center for a population of over 330,000.
Childbirth is a deadly gamble in places like Uganda, where one in every 24 women will die giving birth. Meet Janet and women like her who lived to tell about their high-risk pregnancies, thanks to Kissito intervention.
Kissito’s initiatives in emergency obstetrics include more than 30 Ugandan physicians and midwives participating in intensive, hands-on training designed to save lives of high-risk moms and newborns.
Working hand-in-hand with nationals, Kissito and its partners are renovating and equipping some of East Africa’s most distressed birthing centers and health facilities.
Kissito recently broke ground on a 60-bed hospital that will empower women and families in one of Ethiopia’s most remote and impoverished regions: Benishangul-Gumuz of Western Ethiopia.
Kissito’s belief in Public-Private Partnerships (“PPP”) is key to improving health outcomes in the areas we serve.
Kissito is committed to dramatic reductions in childhood deaths due to malaria and diarrheal diseases – two of Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest killers.
Through nutritional education and interventions at the community level, Kissito seeks to address the root causes of malnutrition in the peoples we serve.
