Health Clinic Hubs

Northern Uganda

Local Partner: One Day Health

Project Year 2023

Our OneDay Health management, nurses and board express our heartfelt thanks to the Lakhani foundation for your amazing commitment to our work here Uganda. Your support in 2022 went towards launching 3 health centers in our West Lango hub, which opened in late 2021. West lango is a moderately populated area, between our base of Gulu and the hubs of Lira and Soroti. We launched these three health centers in Atana, Chakali and Te Ogali with your resources. This report will highlight the work and achievements of these three facilities.

The West Lango hub

ODH Overall Impact

OneDay Health provides the only available comprehensive, high quality primary healthcare in 38 remote rural Ugandan communities. We save lives through accurate treatment of dangerous conditions like malaria, and provide financial freedom through saving

communities money on transport costs and buying medication. Our key impact measures and achievements over the last 5 years are summarized here.

Atana OneDay

Atana was the second health center launched in the West Lango hub, and is the closest to the hub center, around 15 kilometers away from the town of Aduku. The health center is

based in a medium sized center, with a densely populated surrounding community of around 8200 people based on our online hut count. Santo Christ has been a committed and

energetic nurse there since it first opened, and has treated 2203 patient to date. Atana has treated 110 patients for childhood diarrhea, which is high compared with other ODH health centers. Numbers of monthly patients seen Atana have fluctuated greatly as you can see on the graphic below. The first few months of 2023 have seen an encouraging increase in

patient turnup, with 274 patients treated in March during a swell of malaria in the area, with 164 patients treated for the disease that month.

Community Meeting at the opening of Atana ODH

Chakali OneDay

We launched Chakali in late August 2022, with nurse Nancy Hope managing the facility and

treating the community for 7 months, treating 1043 patients in that time. She serves a mixed remote community community of around 5000 fishermen and farmers, as the facility lies

close to the Victoria Nile. Although there is a health center 6 km away on a marram road,

the large area to the south of the facility is underserved, with some villages up to 15km away from the nearest health facility – which is now Chakali. In recent months she has educated

the community about the benefits of family planning, after no patients accessed family planning for the first two months. She has now provided short term family planning to 21

women and we are excited to see this important service grow. Nancy faces many challenges of misinformation about disease and healthcare. Some patients who have a fever but test negative for malaria don’t understand how the test could be negative, as malaria is the only disease they know. At times then it can be hard to convince people to accept treatment for the conditions that are really causing their fever, such as urine infections and typhoid.

Nancy Hope poses for the camera with the facility outpatient book!

Te Ogali

Omara Bonny Okello has operated Te Ogali OneDay Health Center since February 2022 when it was opened ,soon after Atana. Although the catchment area is smaller than many other facilities, the surrounding fertile area is densely populated with around 7500 people. Since opening the health center has treated 1974 outpatients, and like Atana has seen an increase in patient numbers this year, partly related to a huge spike of malaria in the area. One area where nurse Omara has made a huge impact is in pneumonia treatment, especially in

children. He has treated 192 people for pneumonia, a condition more deadly that malaria, which is the most of any health center in the hub. At first we thought this might be due to over prescription, but hub manager Simon confirmed that Omara’s treatment practices were excellent. We aren’t sure why there is so much pneumonia here, but we have hypothesized

that it may be related to the higher density population where there more potential to share germs, and living conditions more cramped than other areas with many children often

sharing one hut.

Nurse Bonny takes the medical history from a mother

We are excited to see what the future holds for Atana, Chakali and Te Ogali. Again we express our deep gratitude not only for your large donations, but also for your enthusiasm you have expressed for the work of OneDay Health in the few conversations that we have had. I hope that this brief report helps you to get a better picture of the fruits of your donations here in Uganda. Feel free to follow up with any questions or comments that you might have and I look forward to talking with you again soon.

Dr. Nicolas Laing

Co-Founder and Country Director of OneDay Health