The Comprehensive and Inclusive Disability Prevention Project being implemented in the districts of Nakasongola and Nakaseke, last week distributed rehabilitation kits to Nakaseeke Hospital and the health center IVs of Ngoma, Semuto, Nakasongola, Nabisweera, and Lwampanga. They are to support health workers in providing comprehensive rehabilitation services to all children with disabilities.
Cerinah was born pre-maturely at 07 months at her parents’ home in Mpongo, Mityana District and rushed to Mityana Hospital for management. As new parents, the wait to have Cerinah get out of hospital could never be more trying.
“After the two months in hospital, we began treating Cerinah like a normal baby, but she never developed at same speed as other children. At 04 months she couldn’t sit on laps, her neck was very weak. I knew there was a problem,” Beatrice narrates with despair.
To aid rehabilitation of children with special needs, Mildmay Uganda, with support from the Netherland government and working with the Government of Uganda has handed over basic rehabilitation kits to various health care facilities in the Mubende region.
The activity that is being spearheaded by a team from the Mildmay Institute of Health Sciences under the Safe Motherhood and Child Disability Rehabilitation Project will see over 400 children spread across health centers in the region benefit from the week-long exercise.