As you might have seen on the Canby Christian Church Uganda blog (http://ccc-uganda-2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/mission-kacungwa.html) a group of medical students from Gulu, located in northern Uganda, recently traveled a great distance to the village of Kacungwa with medical staff from ARM’s Wentz Medical Clinic to perform a 2 day medical and dental clinic. Below are some pictures from the clinic.
The children first check in with Faith and get weighed, measured and their medical reports reviewed. The young man on the scales is one of my sponsored children – Shafiki Lukwago!
Next the children met with one of the medical staff for a checkup and any necessary treatment. The man in white is Joseph Mangusho – one of the medical students from Gulu. Joseph is a second year medical student.
Eyesight is checked for everybody…
The next stop was the dental station. Everybody was given dental hygiene education and then sent on for an examination and treatment if needed.
Obviously, the curling of the toes and gripping the chair as hard as you can when you get a HUGE needle stuck in your mouth is a universal response.
I suppose it was not accidental that they lined the children at the dental station so that they could watch the dentist work. In the second picture below, you can see that they aren’t any too excited about the thought of getting a shot in their mouth! They offered refresher dental hygiene education for anybody who wanted it after this!
The last stop was to provide medications prescribed by the doctors during the examination.
Mark Onenchan, one of the medical students from Gulu, enjoying time with the children of Kacungwa. Mark made many new friends there and is anxious to go back for another visit!
Finally, Obura James Ochidi, the leader of the QHFA team from Gulu poses with my 3 children: Joel Turinawe (in gold shirt), Gorret Nabatta (in back) and Shafiki Lukwago (green & blue shirt). Obura told me that Joel wishes to be a doctor when he grows up and asked Obura to be his mentor. I was so happy to see this picture and realized how much I miss my children in Uganda – I am so excited to be able to go back and visit them in only a couple of weeks now. Unfortunately, I will only have one day at the village, but then God can pack a lot into a single day!
The QHFA team told me how much they love the people of Kacungwa. Pastor Sylver, Yoram and all of the people there welcomed them warmly and made them feel loved and appreciated. I thank God that He worked this out to be able to provide medical care for these children. Unfortunately, as I had noted in a post on the CCC blog, Gorret’s younger sister recently died of malaria and there was also a woman from the village who died of an advanced case of malaria while the team was there – but it was too late to treat her and she also died.
There is much yet to be done to provide medical care to the children of Uganda. Kacungwa is just one village – yes it’s a very special place to me – but there are people dying every day of treatable diseases if they only had care, if they only had been educated about prevention, if they only had clean water, if only . . .
Through God’s grace and provision we will ALL be part of His work to provide care for just one more! Then one more . . .
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