Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital report for September

WHISPER'S MAGICAL HOSPITAL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALWAYS SUPPORTING WHISPER'S HOSPITAL We are so privileged to have you as part of the Whisper team. So many vulnerable patients both mothers and children are being helped because of the continuous donations we receive to buy medicine among so many medical consumables.    WHISPER'S HOSPITAL REPORT September was not much of a busy month as compared to the previous two months. The number of patients received in September totals up to 841 patients. The reduction in the number of patients in September could have been caused by seasonal changes. We thank all our donors for the continuous support through the provision of drugs, consumables and the financial support. The support you give to this Hospital has established a great positive impact to the community. We have been able to provide mothers with free ultrasound scans in the community to help them deliver safely and have health babies. With the great care from our team, Whisper’s Magical Children’s Hospital and Maternity is able to save so many lives. We transfused 150 blood units to the anemic patients in September. 23 sickle cell patients were registered and 183 patients were diagnosed with malaria. OUTREACH ULTRASOUND SCANS Our project for the free ultrasound scan is still going on and in September the outreach team performed 81 scans on the pregnant women who cannot afford going for antenatal visits in health centers. This project is very much appreciated by women we work on. It has been considered a blessing to the community. We are currently stationed at Bugembe health center where we can access the most number of patients. Please continue supporting us with this project so that we can offer more mothers a chance to have safe deliveries. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/stop-ugandan-women-and-children-dying-at-childbirth/   DONATE TO SAVE A LIFE OUR BURNS UNIT Every month Whisper receives children with severe burns. Some cases are a result of child negligence where as others are a result of domestic child abuse where by the caretaker intentionally pours hot water on the child for certain reasons. This is one of the children we received in September who was burnt by boiling water on a charcoal stove when he was playing. He was brought to Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital. We handled him well, dressing was done every after two days. The child healed steadily and was discharged. Right now he is doing much better. All this is made possible because of your generous support. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-us-fund-the-childrens-burn-unit-in-uganda/ DONATE TO SAVE A LIFE THE MALNOURISHED CHILDREN In September our nutritional ward received 12 malnourished patients. Unlike the other months, most of the patients were malnourished due to lack of proper care(feeding) by the parents since most of them had babies, some were pregnant and gave all the attention to their unborn babies. Pneumonia was the most frequent condition found in these patients. The community is not yet aware of malnutrition as some mistake it for witchcraft. They feed children with all sorts of herbs which end up damaging their systems and by the time they come to the Hospital, some systems are totally affected like the liver and spleen. We always try to create awareness about malnutrition during our morning meetings and we always advise caretakers not to give children herbal medicine. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-a-malnourished-child-with-whispers-hospital/   DONATE TO SAVE A LIFE BABY GRACE Baby Grace was admitted in the neonatal ward on 25th September. She was brought in a very bad condition. She was severely anemic with septic wounds. The mother had lost hope because of the condition the baby was in. We handled the child with care and love. The child was transfused every time daily dressing was done. Although blood was a bit scarce in Jinja, we managed to get enough blood units for our baby and the rest of the anemic patients. The wounds healed and the baby is now home with her mother. We thank all our lovely donors who make sure that such lives of babies are saved by donating towards their treatment. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/keep-our-childrens-hospital-open/ DONATE TO SAVE A LIFE

MAGICAL MATERNITY Whisper’s Magical Maternity delivered 13 babies whose mothers said that they had heard of Whisper’s Magical Maternity through their friends and relatives who were delivered and our team executed a high level of care and professionalism. We received 90 patients in September, 19 consultations, 6 patients for cervical cancer screening, 25 antenatal visits, 8 admissions, 50 scans, 4 C-sections, 5 Elective C-sections, 4 normal deliveries, 24 babies were immunized and we performed 4 other procedures including Perineal repair and induction of labour. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/stop-ugandan-women-and-children-dying-at-childbirth/