In Uganda’s population of 33 million, more than 100 women die in childbirth each week. In a single year, the bodies of women and children who die in Uganda (largely due to childbirth) edges close to the number of those who perished in the first waves of the 2012 Haiti earthquake – yet it makes hardly a ripple in the world news. Act now to equip Mbale Regional Referral Hospital’s maternity ward which is responsible for 7,300 births per year in Eastern Uganda.

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Kissito International is a bold movement of doctors, nurses, missionaries, students, humanitarians, public health experts, and people just like you; committed to one simple goal: Saving Lives Now. Founded on strong Christian values, we seek to demonstrate Integrity, Passion, Excellence, and Respect through our daily actions.

Through government partnerships in Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, DR Congo and South Sudan, KHI works in health system strengthening to benefit 369,000 patients, safely deliver 15,000 babies and rehabilitate 13,000 malnourished women and children each year. By intervening in supply-chain management, referral system networking and human resource strengthening, KHI is immediately able to capacitate crippled public health systems in the areas we serve while piloting sustainable solutions for the long term through community-based health cooperatives and village health team outreach.

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Notes from the field

Kissito Healthcare International submitted a consolidated appeal to the United Nations Office of Coordinated Humanitarian Affairs to provide life saving emergency nutrition services and local healthcare capacity strengthening for malnourished mothers and children in the state Jonglei of  South Sudan. In collaboration with Plan International and local health care services KHI  will:

• Perform rapid assessments

• Establish stabilization centers for mothers and children

• Establish outpatient therapeutic programs

• Manage supplementary feeding programs

• Provide community outreach and education

• Build capacity of local health workers

• Improve health management information systems

• Coordinate local partners and government health services 

In addition to the work proposed in South Sudan an appeal was also submitted to commence work to increase access to emergency nutrition services in Garowe and Bossaso. KHI’s appeal is one of only 27 approved by the UNOCHA from entries world-wide. If funded, the work will begin for one year in South Sudan and three years in Somalia, starting sometime in 2013.

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We need your donation, your time, your prayers and your voice. Each year thousands of needless deaths occur. Children are most at risk from malnutrition, lack of immunizations and basic health services. Kissito provides simple solutions established with Evidence-Based Best Practices. Through an integrated system of hospitals, health clinics, malnutrition rehabilitation centers, and Christian mission work, families not only survive, but thrive.

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