Physical Health Uganda Project #33098

Support our newborn care training team

by Born on the Edge

Project Report | Oct 15, 2021
A single act of kindness

By Adam Hewitt Smith | Trustee, Born on the Edge

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees’. - Amelia Earhart.

What will be your act if kindness today? Please consider supporting our neonatal trainers and clinicians, who lead the staff training, neonatal education and clinical care of our babies. Here we share one of our patient's stories:

“We came here when our baby was very sick, we almost lost him. He was only a few days old, but he was convulsing, passing blood and in septic shock. The team admitted us and started him on oxygen and treatment immediately, they were so good watching after our baby all the time. The convulsions stopped, but after 2 days he wasn’t improving and he started vomiting a green colour. The doctor sent us for x-ray and I was so worried as I had not seen any other patients being sent for X-ray. My hope begun to leave me, I thought we were going to loose him. Thankfully the x-ray wasn’t too bad, but the doctor explained that our baby’s infection wasn’t responding to any of the medications that were available in the hospital and that they wanted to change him onto another medication, but that it was quite expensive.

We wanted to try, so we found the money and we started that morning. He started to improve a little by that evening and finally his temperature and heart rate started to normalise. Day by day our baby improved. He is now perfect, doing well, his brain scan is normal and he is breastfeeding well. We have spent 17 days in the neonatal unit, but we don’t regret a single moment.

The team has done us so well and we pray they may live long to treat many more children. We thank God for the doctors and nurses, because today we have been sent home with our beautiful baby.”

We can only continue this amazing work in eastern Uganda with the support of people like you. If you would like to set up a fundraiser to raise money for much needed additional monitoring and breathing equipment, support a neonatal care training course or support our neonatal trainers, we would be so grateful for any donation you can give

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