From our volunteer's blog Vanja

Yesterday I volunteered to stay for 24 hours, and to sleep on the floor in Nalfenya governmental hospital.

 The reason for doing that was so I could monitor our babies Muzaphal and Hiba who were both critical.







Doctors are very worried that Muzaphal could go into a cardiac arrest caused by hypothermia. It's the rain season now in Uganda, so nights are very cold, and the hospital doesn't have a proper isolation. 

Hiba was kept in the emergency room at the same hospital, her condition wasn't improving for the last few days, she barely survived the seizure on Monday but didn't wake up since, so she needs to be on oxygen non-stop, and connected to a heart monitor.

At 4 am there was a big flood caused by a heavy rain, and by 5 am there was no electrical power in the entire hospital, even the generator wasn't working.

I left Muzaphal with the nurses and started running to the emergency room, because without the electricity Hiba will not get oxygen! I found her mother there, crying in the dark because Hiba was barely breathing and her heart rate lowered to 28. Even the doctor said the baby is going to die.

I immediately called the founder of Whisper, Veronika, who came to pick us up within the next 10 minutes, and we urgently transferred Hiba to a private clinic where she received the first aid and was stabilized.

Right now Hiba and her mother are on their way to The Kampala main hospital - Mulago, where trey're going to stay for the next 2 weeks.

Please, help us to save Hiba's life!

Muzaphar; the young boy with old eyes

We've spent two days and one night very deep in the remote villages of Bugiri district looking for sick, dying, malnourished children.

We encountered many desperate people begging for help, and have met suffering babies, but the worse case was one and a half year old, severely malnourished  Muzaphar who also has a malaria. We were told that the  malaria entered every parts and bone of his body.





His mother doesn't care about him and has abandoned him a while ago because she got pregnant again. Muzaphar ended up with a grandmother who wasn't feeding him. 
We instantly took him to the hospital where he was urgently admitted.






The first day we got him to the hospital, Muzaphar was diagnosed with kwashiorkor.  Doctors at the children's hospital Nalfenya have told us that it's going to be a long, difficult and expensive recovery since his test results are very bad. Also, his brain might be permanently damaged but it's to early to tell for sure.






Please, help us to save his life, because this baby boy will not make it without a proper medical care.

Give him a chance to grow up!