'Child of The Nile'
Bass Stewart • December 23, 2018
Video from our recent trip to Uganda...
In early December, Dr Peter Smith, Dr Bill Tams and Bass Stewart visited six clinics in Uganda that are either using our system, or will be soon.
Bass also visited the Ministry of Health, with The Uganda UK Health Alliance ( www.uukha.org
) and presented our system to the eHealth sub-committee, in the hope that we will be recommended for Governement-run clinics, as well the NGO-lead clinics we aready support.
All-in-all, an exhasuting, but incredibly productive fortnight!
Big thanks to Sam Cronin ( www.samcronin.co.uk
) for allowing us to use this soundtrack.
Sam is Bass's Godson, but due to his Dad's career taking him all over the world, the two had not met since the Christening, and had lost touch except for the odd email between his Dad and Bass - including one sent just before the Uganda trip...
...completely by chance, Sam happened to by in Kampala while Bass was there! Bizarre, but true.
They hooked up for dinner, and the rest, as they say is history. Sam is a travelling musician, absorbing inspiration from the surroundings he finds himself in.
He loves Uganda too!
Perfect!
A new partnership with The University of North Texas Science Centre.
A message from Bushika
Fundraising and Events
The Development Team is always busy!
Dr Elizabeth and Mark Fowler are back in Uganda this week. Here they are with Henry Muwonge from Uganda UK Health Alliance at the British High Commission in Kampala. They had a positive meeting with Health Policy Officer Brenda Kabibi OutreachEMR look forward to exploring further potential partnerships with the BHC. Check facebook for more updates. https://uukha.org
OutreachEMR are delighted to be recognised by and work with HIFA to achieve our common goals
New EMR Server in Eastern Uganda
Our name may change but we don't!
All at EMR4DW, Medical Records Save Lives, are delighted to congratulate Enoch Magala, and the whole team of Centre for Youth Driven Development Initiatives (CFYDDI). On the opening of their clinic in Jinja Uganda this month. Several of us have been able to visit Enoch and witness the building of this wonderful facility. I visited along with EMR4DW founder’s Dr Peter Smith and Bass Stewart in 2018, to give advice and demonstrate EMR4DW to the enthusiastic staff.
We might be in lockdown in the UK, but the picture shows our Ugandan Senior Ambassador, Julius Okello who spent 2 days helping set up EMR4DW and give staff training.
Don’t look so worried everyone!! Most clinics tell us staff, with no previous computer skills, can learn the basics in a couple of days. So it will get better!
We all wish you the absolute best of luck and are certain this clinic along with EMR4DW electronic medical records will only help in the wonderful work you do.
Watch this blog for further updates.
The Covid pandemic has made 2020 a very difficult year for the whole world. Clinics using EMR4DW are often at the forefront of such difficulties. They are often working in remote poorly funded areas making their work, caring for their community, extremely challenging. Our thoughts. prayers and best wishes go out to every one of them. There is a glint of hope for the future as research on treatment of covid-19 showing simple inexpensive treatments can help as well as vaccines developed, in Oxford, that, I understand, have promised to be available to all countries at no profit. We hope the WHO can help to roll this out to all vulnerable people wherever they are. One thing we are proud of is that our computer software EMR4DW is able to code Covid-19 as a disease allowing our clinics to monitor case numbers in their communities and inform health departments quickly and accurately. When the vaccines are available every clinic will be able to document every covid-19 vaccine given. Let's hope it is soon! Keep up the good work in 2021.