📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Lubaga Hospital, founded 1899, is a general hospital with a big Public Health Department. It is under the management of a Board of Directors, appointed by the Archbishop of Kampala. Day-to-day management is carried out by a Hospital Administrative Team headed by the Executive Director, the Medical Director and the Hospital Administrator.
The hospital has 275 beds (internal medicine, gynecology/obstetrics, pediatrics, surgery). 170.000+ outpatients, 18.000+ inpatients and about 6.000 deliveries each year characterize the main activities. The AIDS Care and Treatment program follows about 2.000 patients/clients.
The hospital is a Private-non-for profit general hospital – faith based, Catholic.
💼 What the programme involves
Can be very different and can be attached to:
• Principal Nursing Officer: nursing field, quality control, feedback analysis
• Pharmacy: support store management
• PRO (Public Relation Officer): website and IT communication related issues
• Public Health: Home visits to people living with HIV/AIDS, Campaigns against HIV/AIDS, school health programs
• Pastoral and Social Worker: workshops, counseling, home visits
• Workshop: if technical skills - supervision of construction activities
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation can be in UPA Guesthouse, host families or in rented house depending on the location of the project you apply for or wish of the volunteer. At the Guesthouse, accommodation will be simple but comfortable. The UPA Guesthouse can accommodate 18 persons at any given time.
Volunteers will cook their own meals using gas. A small fridge is available to keep food. But remember that electricity in Uganda is unreliable. The boys' room is separate from that of the girls and there is a caretaker to do the general cleaning of the house at specific times. Other minor Guesthouse utensils' cleaning, the volunteers are expected to do for themselves. You have to do your own laundry by hand or in case of need may be done by the caretaker at a mutually agreed fee. There is a shared kitchen where you can make your meals and there is one shower, a toilet and a pit latrine.
📍 About the location
From UPA Guesthouse/Nansana to Uganda Martyrs Hospital Lubaga, it is 9 km and it costs 4000 Ugandan shillings (one way) by public means.
The project is in Kampala and there is a lot of leisure activities that a volunteer can engage in depending on their interest.
⚠️ Requirements
• Willing to work long hours and on Weekends.
• Willing to be open to a culturally diverse environment
• Emotional strength, patience and the capacity not to judge precociously
• Volunteers with medical background or profession are a priority. Especially if interested in quality improvement activities. But also interest and skills in IT and modern technology is an advantage.
Administrative skills (store management etc.) are also interesting.
ℹ️ Additional information
The volunteers must apply for a tourist visa online with this link. https://www.visas.immigration.go.ug/ . This should be done a couple of weeks or months before the departure date. The form requires you to fill in the address of the contact person in Uganda and you should use: ZZIWA SAMUEL MUSANYUSA, NANSANA WEST I ZONE, +256785601220. The immigration department sends you an approval document which you must print and present on arrival at the airport. The tourist visa costs 50 US $ and it is better to carry it in cash.