Lufafa Emmanuel sent this to me from the clinic yesterday. I was truly full of sorry when I read the following story. It broke my heart. 

1. Shafik a baby boy, aged 4years,lost his father remaining with only the mother,was brought to the clinic by his poor mother.On history taking we found the mother has no job.The poor boy was severely malnourished and the mother said they don't have enough food to eat at home that is why the boy is malnourished.We health educated her oh how she is supposed to feed the young boy.The poor woman asked us a question at the end and we had no answer to give.She said "yes i have learned how to feed my baby but where shall i get the feeds yet we even have nothing to eat at home.We did not have some spacial feeds for malnutrition at the clinic to give.We decided to just take away the baby from her and was taken to a children home"
2. Malaria is the most common disease affecting the people in Uganda most especially in Jinja district where it has pulled down the life expectancy compared to other places in Uganda.Life expectancy for Jinja district is 49 years compared to the national life expectancy which is 50 years.It has been also estimated that 28children die every day in Jinja district because of malaria. Malaria disease can be easily prevented and every time we go to the poor communities deep in the villages to healthy educate the public about malaria preventive methods,the people understand well how to prevent the disease.But the reason as to why malaria is the commonest disease affecting and killing the people in the poor communities,it is because the people can't afford to buy the matrials used to prevent malaria like mosquito nets,mosquito reperant and prophylaxis treatment.
3. John is an orphan,5years old,he lost both his father and mother because of the HIV/Aids.He was tested negative.He was brought to the clinic with high fever of 42.1 degrees Celsius by the relative at mafubira community clinic.He had rigor chills because of the intoxication produced by the plasmodiam malarea micro organism which also leads the high fever.We did not do a blood slide for microscopy because we don't have a microscope. so we treated clinically but there was no improvement.We referred them to a better hospital but they did not have any money.I pulled out the little money i was left with and gave them to go for a laboratory check up,only to realize it was a different type of malaria caused by plasmodiam vivax and that is why it was not responding to the treatment we were administering.Malaria is caused by different types of plasmodiam organisms and some times the treatment differ according to which type of organism.The challenge here is lack of a microscope.We pray that one day God will provide one.
4. Health Education :We decided to have healthy education lessons at least once in a week,targeting the orphans,the widows and the very poor people.One day i was giving a healthy talk to the orphans about how to prevent most common communicable diseases among them,like the common cold and diarrhea.I taught them how they are supposed to wash their hands and how they are supposed to cover their mouth when coughing.That very day after the lesson i found some of the kids repeating the same mistakes.I had to repeat the lesson and told them to demonstrate,i even drew pictures for them to see but most important i realized they can understand well, when we use demonstration videos because they love watching videos.But the Challenge is where to get the projector and the DVD player because every time we use a TV some of them complain that they did not see well.