Donate an hospital bed in Uganda - Adventist Help

Welcome to the Kyaka Refugee Camp 2, Kyegegwa District, Western Uganda. It is home to 50,000 refugees from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a rapidly growing field, with thousands of refugees arriving every month on border buses. It is expected to rise to 150,000 over the next six months.

Why the escape of this people to Uganda? Eastern DRC is a region devastated by some of the highest levels of ethnic violence in the world for decades, and the situation is worsening. Hundreds of militias wreak havoc on communities, shifting from village to village - murder, rape, plunder. The region is described as the "capital of world rape" - 48 women are raped every hour. 65% of victims of sexual violence are children - more recent statistics show that even in Kyaka camp 2, 10% of children were raped by militias. It is a region where tens of thousands of children have been taken away as child soldiers, victims of human trafficking, forced prostitution, slavery. It is one of the most horrible regions on the planet. The escalation of violence last year has resulted in more displacements of 2.7 million people. And, moreover, a hunger crisis with more than 5 million children living with severe malnutrition - some of the highest rates on the planet. To conclude, there are among these people the worst cholera epidemic for decades.

Following the success of our campaign hospital in Mosul, Iraq, which received more than 50,000 patients last year, we were invited by ADRA Uganda to help develop an even larger refugee hospital for Congolese refugees who entered Uganda. The Prime Minister's Office gave us three acres of land at Kyaka Central Camp 2 at the main arrival point of the refugee buses.

The camp has extremely limited health facilities - its health statistics are bleak even compared to countries like Somalia - simply because of the lack of infrastructure. It is similar to Iraq, but with a larger population, fewer facilities and the added burden of infectious diseases. If you are a woman in labor and have complications and need a C-section, you and the baby are likely to die-there are no theaters nearby. If you are a child and develops cerebral malaria, you will probably die because there are no high quality care facilities nearby. If you have diabetes, you will not be able to receive treatment. If you have been raped and need antiretrovirals, you will not have access to them either. And it only gets worse. The need for an installation like ours is essential.

The planned hospital will include 140 beds, with services for men, women and children, a labor room and isolation facilities. A well-equipped emergency room, an X-ray and ultrasound unit, a laboratory, an outpatient clinic with dental and mental care, and two operating rooms - a room reserved exclusively for obstetrics and a physiotherapy department to rehabilitate this people, a new UN request. We focus on the health of women and children.

Now, we are starting a fundraising campaign to buy hospital beds we need for the female wing of this hospital.

We are targeting between 3,500 and 4,000 euros to have 20 beds that we need to start the project. And we need your help urgently.

Do not think that your offer is too small - everything is and will be useful.

Our AdventistHelp team is made up of volunteers and all donated money is entirely dedicated to equipment and not to operating costs.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation through ADRA, please contact us at [email protected] and we will send you the details!

Thanks again for being involved!