Butabika Hospital
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Let us introduce ourselves, Anna on the left and El on the right!
For those who don't know, we are heading off to Kampala, Uganda on September the 19th for 9 weeks!
The reason behind our trip is to do our final placement for our Occupational Therapy course! Our placement is at Butabika Hospital, the largest mental health referral hospital in Uganda. The hospital can have anywhere from [phone redacted] patients at any given time.
SO! Why are we raising money?
Our supervisor Richard (Head of Occupational Therapy & Clinical Psychologist at the hospital) said the OT department is in a process of transition to focus more on vocational rehabiliation and would therefore love some equipment to do so! Equipment they have on their wish list includes a dough making machine, briquette machine, camera, juice extractor and a sewing machine!
We are hoping we can raise some money in order to purchase a couple of things on the wishlist and get the ball rolling! We will be sure to keep you all in the loop as to what is purchased, and photos of it in action :)
Our role in the OT department will be to:
- Establishing vocational opportunities to clients at community level through establishing community projects.
- Offering psychosocial rehabilitation and community integration of patients.
- Providing comprehensive clinical occupational therapy to the physically and psychological handicapped patients.
- Offering OT services to hospital wards.
- Improving the patients’ quality of life by empowering them to participate in daily activities.
- Promoting general hygiene of patients on the wards by equipping them with skills to maintain socially approved standards.
- Offering day care services to Outpatients after discharge.
- Exploring potentials of recovering clients and indentifying specific areas for training and re-training.
Thanks in advance,
Anna & El xxx
For those who don't know, we are heading off to Kampala, Uganda on September the 19th for 9 weeks!
The reason behind our trip is to do our final placement for our Occupational Therapy course! Our placement is at Butabika Hospital, the largest mental health referral hospital in Uganda. The hospital can have anywhere from [phone redacted] patients at any given time.
SO! Why are we raising money?
Our supervisor Richard (Head of Occupational Therapy & Clinical Psychologist at the hospital) said the OT department is in a process of transition to focus more on vocational rehabiliation and would therefore love some equipment to do so! Equipment they have on their wish list includes a dough making machine, briquette machine, camera, juice extractor and a sewing machine!
We are hoping we can raise some money in order to purchase a couple of things on the wishlist and get the ball rolling! We will be sure to keep you all in the loop as to what is purchased, and photos of it in action :)
Our role in the OT department will be to:
- Establishing vocational opportunities to clients at community level through establishing community projects.
- Offering psychosocial rehabilitation and community integration of patients.
- Providing comprehensive clinical occupational therapy to the physically and psychological handicapped patients.
- Offering OT services to hospital wards.
- Improving the patients’ quality of life by empowering them to participate in daily activities.
- Promoting general hygiene of patients on the wards by equipping them with skills to maintain socially approved standards.
- Offering day care services to Outpatients after discharge.
- Exploring potentials of recovering clients and indentifying specific areas for training and re-training.
Thanks in advance,
Anna & El xxx
Organizer
Elysa Watson
Organizer
Panton Hill, VIC