Shallon is a support worker in the surgical theatre at Bwindi Community Hospital, and cleans and prepares instruments and ensures that everything is always ready for an emergency. She is amazed at the progress made since the first operation was performed in December 2008. She has lived in the Bwindi area all of her life and says we never thought we would see the day when operations took place in Bwindi. The community members are all so happy.
“We never thought we would see the day….so happy”
The Problem
Any Hospital needs the capacity to do operations. Lots of women require Caesarean sections to safely deliver their babies, and patients come to the Hospital needing other emergency procedures. In the future we would like to begin routine operations to reduce disabilities.Our Services
The Operating Theatre team in Bwindi is led by Dr. Julius Nkalubo, who first came to Bwindi as a Medical Student from Mbarara University. His team performs an average of one major operation a day, although many times they will perform two or three surgeries throughout the day and late into the night. The most common procedure is a Caesarean Section, and we also perform hernia repairs, dental extractions, and a number of other minor surgical procedures.
Julius holds a weekly surgical clinic and manages other cases, and plans to invite visiting surgeons to come to Bwindi to help him with difficult cases. He wants to improve the quality of his equipment, introducing an anaesthetic machine and better lighting in the minor theatre.
