Location Karamoja - Moroto District - town of Moroto

Duration 2008-2010 - Renewed end of 2012

Self Financing Financing

• Economic support to 4 doctors (reduced to two at the end of July 2012 - two doctors terminated the employment relationship to attend specialization courses in the capital) in the various hospital departments and in the day care centers.

Results hospital structure

• 496 pieces of which 66 would be caesareans

• 150 beds guaranteed

• 9,290 patients visited in the department

• 11,277 patients under the age of 5 visited in the department

Direct beneficiaries 16,962 of the municipality of Moroto on a basin of 136,000 people in the same district.

• Economic support to 5 doctors in the various hospital departments and in polyclinics for daily visits;

• rehabilitate a solar well and a manual.

Direct beneficiaries 18,000 of the entire hospital facility on a basin of 116,735 people in the county of Matheniko and the municipality of Moroto

• installed pump and solar panels donated by the Italian Cooperation at the end of 2009 to equip the water hospital all day;

• from September, resumed economic support program for the three non-specialist doctors in the hospital.

Results hospital structure

36,201 visit out to new patients.

1,512 women underwent a first prenatal visit, while the number dropped to 339 for women who underwent the fourth visit.

424 parts, 41 caesars.

9,468 admissions.

Vaccinations for diphtheria, cough and tetanus to 721 patients, for polio to 776 people, for measles in 601 patients.

Significantly significant: in the quarter of February-April there were no cesarean or other major transactions, while in the quarter from September to November there were 12 cesars and 15 other major transactions.

Direct beneficiaries 18,000 of the entire hospital facility on a basin of 116,735 people in the county of Matheniko and the municipality of Moroto.

• Support of a second specialist physician in Moroto's infant maternity ward;

• Purchased the medicines needed for the hospital;

• provided beds and other material, such as an ultrasound machine arrived in Uganda;

• purchased and installed a submersible pump for the pediatric ward, operating room and maternity ward; Realized water distribution system for supplying water to the pediatrics hall and the operating room;

• In December, Italian Cooperation donated a pump and solar panels to equip the water hospital all day; That pump will be installed in 2010.

Results hospital structure

Only in the first quarter of 2009 allowed 622 patients, 42 children admitted to the nutrition section of the pediatric department. Among malaria treated malaria contributed 54%, followed by 22% respiratory tract infections, 12% pneumonia, and diarrhea.

86% of the total admissible patients between January and March 2009 have been cured and have been discharged, while 12% went to their own will. Less than 1% of deaths were reported. Mothers who voluntarily left the hospital structure were driven by socio-economic factors such as lack of food or the presence of other children left home.

In the third quarter of 2009, the number of children admitted to the pediatric ward doubled to 1.227 with 1,137 admissions (92.7%), while the percentage of patients leaving the hospital on their own initiative was halved, 6.6 %; No deaths occurred.

Malaria remains one of the main causes of admission to the hospital among children (both under and over the age of 5).

Direct beneficiaries 4,500 only of the infant-maternity ward - 18,000 of the entire hospital structure - default estimate

After several calls by the Medical Director of the District of Moroto, the CAO (the highest administrative district authority), the representatives at WHO (World Health Organization) and other International Agencies, and by the Italian Embassy in Kampala, Made it necessary to intervene at the Moroto Hospital to respond to the crisis situation that, in early 2008, saw the hospital completely discharged by medical staff (a single dentist present).

CUAMM, for the second half of 2008, guaranteed the presence of a first Ugandan doctor for pediatrics. C & S, besides having pierced a new water well inside the hospital, guaranteed a monetary grant to the project.

With the introduction of a new physician, the hospital activity is massively resumed: the increase in hospital admissions has doubled and the majority of children are rescued.