We spent the last week back in the Kyaka 2 Refugee Settlement visiting our wonderful clinic team there. The clinic, operated through a partnership between AdventRelief, Ishaka Adventist Hospital and ADRA Uganda, continues to serve thousands of refugees who have fled from the fighting in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo – one of the most dangerous regions in Subsaharan Africa.
The clinic provides outpatient primary care, antenatal care, family planning services, vaccination rollouts for children, nutritional rehabilitation programs for malnourished children, and most importantly treatment services for malaria – the biggest contributor to adult and child mortality in the region.
We are also planning a new program that provides much needed mental health services – a large portion of patients treated in the clinic are rape survivors and have suffered significant trauma in the DRC.
In the clinic development, we are currently struggling with two areas that still need funding – the opening of our inpatient area to treat severe malaria, and the setting up of a malaria lab to effectively manage these patients.
We hope to open our volunteer program in Uganda for international medics soon. Watch this space!
If you’d like to support this heavily utilised clinic service please visit www.AdventRelief.org/donate.









*photos obtained with permission of patient/ guardian