Satellite Health Clinics
With increased security people are abandoning the IDP camps and returning to their ancestral lands. The resettlement process is complicated by many issues including safety concerns, land disputes, and access to education, water, and health care. Hundreds of health clinics were abandoned or destroyed over the last 22 years. Some areas of settlement are entirely new. Central and Local Government are overwhelmed with the need to provide access to healthcare. It is our desire to support the health infrastructure by building or renovating one health center at a time. Once a health center is operational, Satellite Clinics can then go to surrounding areas to distribute medicine, and complete urgently needed exams and procedures on a weekly basis. The Satellite Clinics would operate temporarily until a health center could be completed for that village.
Scholarship Program
Access to health care is also limited by human resource capacity. The areas in the North are particularly vulnerable to human resource problems. Health workers here are overworked, underpaid, and underprivileged compared to southern and central regions of Uganda. Health workers can only work under these high stress conditions for 3 – 6 months before going to work somewhere safer and more beneficial to them and their families. One small step toward fixing this cyclical problem is to increase the number of locally derived health workers. People from the region are more likely to continue working even under difficult circumstance, because their family and life is already there. ReNUH will initiate a scholarship program for 20 youth, 5 in each of the four districts of Acholiland, Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum, and Pader. Secondary and University school fees and tuition would be paid to the recipients under the condition that they work in a hospital or health center in their home district for at least 3 years.
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