April News
Part 8: Binary Medical Clinic
Second Clinic Jehovah Rapha Clinic
After 2 years of practice, the clinic had outgrown its first home, so they rented a new larger premises, with separate midwifery rooms. In 2019 alone, CRESS’s second Jehovah Rapha Clinic treated 7,862 refugee patients, and was registered with the Uganda Health authority.
The clinic was exceptionally well-equipped for such a remote service. It had a electronic microscope, donated by Salisbury Hospital, which can detect different types of malaria, enabling specialised treatment that has saved many lives. The clinic also had an ultrasound scanner that sees patients queuing for its service. The scanner also brought in referrals from other medical centres in the area.
As well as offering primary healthcare services, the JRC clinic provided many outreach services:
- maternal support and teaching in refugee camps and hard-to-reach communities,
- mama kits with medicine, supplements, mosquito nets, and essentials for baby care,
- Children’s Accelerated Trauma Training (CATT) with 9 counsellors going into refugee camps and har-to-reach communities,
- adult trauma teaching and support,
- hygiene, family spacing and mosquito net training,
- Re-Usable Menstrual Pads (RUMPs) training and reproductive health teaching for girls in schools,
- dental and eye surgery as funds provide,
- prayer support.
RUMPs training
Antenatal class
