The need
Mbale RRH is one of 13 “Regional Referral Hospitals” in Uganda and serves around 4.7 million people.
Healthcare in Uganda is very different to what we are used to in the UK. Lives are often lost because of a lack of basic resources.
What we do
Staff from Royal Glamorgan Hospital and across Cwm Taf work in partnership to improve training and facilities at Mbale RRH. With our Ugandan colleagues, we identify which hospital services are most in need of development.
We link a wider community of people who care, by fundraising and mobilising donations of equipment.
We visit Mbale – and bring Ugandan staff to Wales – to pass on techniques and medical experience by training and working alongside Ugandan healthcare staff. This makes our impact sustainable. We’ve brought laboratory technicians to the UK for training in the maintenance of their equipment as well as doctors and nurses.
We learn a lot from the resourcefulness of our Ugandan partners – skilled and dedicated people who often just don’t have what they need to serve their communities. We believe people should have the same life chances wherever they are born.
We’ve worked in many areas of the hospital including A&E, Surgery, Radiology and Paediatrics. Many of our projects have focused in the Maternity, Endoscopy and Anaesthesia departments.