Welcome to the CHURCH OF UGANDA Kisiizi Hospital web site
” Life in all its fullness” John 10:10
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LATEST NEWSLETTER FROM KISIIZI
A wide range of different reports from Kisiizi published in October 2024 including the expansion of our Special Care Baby Unit:
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Friends of Kisiizi Day in Reading was a wonderful time of updates, reunions and blessings as a good number met up with Mr Moses Mugume, the Senior Hospital Administrator from Kisiizi, as the Guest of Honour. The programme included a number of video greetings and updates from staff and from Bishop Onesimus Asiimwe and his wife Florence; presentations from Kisiizi Partners, Hope Clinic, CHEEERS team from Dublin and a lovely report from Barak and Heather St John who have just returned to UK after 3.5 years serving in Kisiizi. Moses shared much wisdom and updated us on many aspects of Kisiizi and, to round off the day, demonstrated Bakiga dancing!
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K I S I I Z I L E A F L E T September 2024
Here is the latest publicity leaflet about Kisiizi and its varied ministries. Please feel free to print off copies and to send out the pdf to friends and contacts.
LOOKING AHEAD…DIARY DATES…
Looking some way ahead, it will be the 70th Anniversary of Church of Uganda Kisiizi Hospital in 2028 and we are hoping to have a major celebration in Kisiizi and hope that with this much notice many who have served and supported Kisiizi over the decades will plan to attend and enjoy the remarkable and unique Kisiizi family story together. Management have asked Friends of Kisiizi to think about the optimal dates somewhere in 2024. At present the suggestion is for a weekend in June 2028 for the main Celebration events followed by a few days on an island in Lake Bunyonyi for those who just want to catch up with friends. Do send your suggestions or comments about dates to friends.of.kisiizi.hospital@gmail.com Thank you.
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ENJOY! FAVOURITE RECIPES FROM FRIENDS
Sarah Cassie has produced a whole range of interesting recipes from friends of Kisiizi so do download the document in the pdf below. She and her friends also ran up a hill in the Peak District as an egg & spoon race to raise funds for Kisiizi Partners following up her previous marathon run in Anglesey…
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KH Newsletter Update JUNE / JULY 2024
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Kisiizi update newsletter March 2024
FRIENDS OF KISIIZI DAY
Enjoy the video clips from Friends Day illustrating a wide range of ministries of Kisiizi
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see Kisiizi Update Newsletter April / May 2023
Staff and students gathered to celebrate 65 years since the first Thanksgiving service in 1958 (see the historical booklet).
Kisiizi Historical booklet: 1958-1983
March 2023 KISIIZI UPDATE NEWSLETTER – Click to open
See photos and read the news from Kisiizi including the Nutrition Project, Urology Camp, feedback from the Stre@mline Ubuntu project launch in Kampala and staff news as well as an introduction to the new Chairman of the Board of Governors of Kisiizi Hospital.
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December 2022 News Updates
December 22 KH Newsletter
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Job Advert: Nutrition Project Coordinator
Nutrition Project Coordinator Job Advert
FRIENDS OF KISIIZI DAY was a wonderful time catching up with old friends and making new ones. For those who missed the day, here are a range of videos and presentations which cover a wide range of topics relating to Kisiizi:
Click on the link below to open the table that has links to each of the videos on YouTube:
Friends Day 2022 video presentation links
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The latest magazine from Medical Missionary News focuses on Mental Health and includes an article from Kisiizi…
MMN then organised a webinar which included a focus on Kisiizi mental health services which you can see on the link below:
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Click the link below for the Kisiizi Update newsletter for September:
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STRE@MLINE HEALTH WINS SWISS RE FOUNDATION ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATORS AWARDS 2022!
264 applications from 81 countries were submitted for the 3 awards being offered… including the one from Streamline Health & Kisiizi. (Stre@mline is the patient-centred integrated IT system developed in Kisiizi). Samuel Mugisha presented to a jury who chose our project as the leading scheme awarding a grant of 350,000 USD to allow strengthening of the Kisiizi community health insurance scheme and the roll out to 14 other hospitals in Uganda with a goal of adding 150,000 beneficiaries in the next 2 years.
Thanks for all the prayers and votes and support. We came a very close second in the separate People’s Choice Award (over 200,000 votes were received) but as we received so many votes (around 45%) we believe there will be lots of follow up contacts resulting. Well done to all the Stre@mline and Kisiizi teams!
Below is the announcement of the winner with a cheer from Friends of Kisiizi!
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KISIIZI COMMUNITY HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME January 2021
This important research shows that membership of our Scheme leads to a 26% increase in use of mosquito nets and 18% increase in deworming compared to control families in our communities. There is little research published on the effect of voluntary health insurance on preventive health so this paper is really interesting adding yet more benefits to the value of our Scheme. These include the obvious financial protection against catastrophic health expenditure in the event of acute illness, plus our previously published work on a significant reduction in childhood stunting. In addition Kisiizi has analysed data from the Stre@mline IT system it has developed to show a 50% fall in admission rates from our clinics for those who belong to the Scheme. We currently have around 42,000 beneficiaries in 6 districts in over 220 groups in this not-for-profit scheme reaching up to 60km from Kisiizi.
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Kisiizi continues to have an amazing impact all over the world. A tourism student at the Pantheon Sorbonne of University of Paris chose Kisiizi Falls as a project due to its links with the United Nations World Tourism Organization ST-EP Project (sustainable tourism, eliminating poverty).
click here to see the project report: Phillips_Kisiizi Falls Tourism Project
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KISIIZI VIDEOS AND PRESENTATIONS
| NAME | LINK | COMMENT |
| Kisiizi overview presentation | https://youtu.be/bYFjCeg7qLAS | You tube clip with slides & greeting from Moses Mugume |
| Kisiizi Hospital Mothers Waiting Home | https://youtu.be/0_tc_sFZjI0 | Uganda Broadcasting Corporation TV documentary clip 2019. |
| Free Fistula treatment at Kisiizi Hospital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBdvpnxwHlk | Uganda Broadcasting Corporation TV documentary clip 2019. |
| Possible Government support for Kisiizi to offer free maternal services | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkWLHHNFDkI | Uganda Broadcasting Corporation TV documentary clip 2019. |
| Uganda UK Health Alliance Webinar | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWCU2gsqf0k&feature=youtu.be | Kisiizi Hospital innovations for patient safety |
| Uganda UK Health Alliance | https://knowledge-gateway.org/?nbq37d5c.r7qdckz7 | Newsletter with article on Kisiizi included |
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The Effect of Community Based Health Insurance on Child Health and Preventive Health: PhD Thesis based on Kisiizi community health insurance scheme 2018:
Effect of CBHI on Child Health and Preventive Health thesis KHIS recd 9-2018
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All the proceeds go to the Good Samaritan Fund of Kisiizi Hospital to help care for the poorest members of our community. The fund also subsidises all mental health care and insulin. Kisiizi Waterfall and Bird-life
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PHOTO BOOK ABOUT KISIIZI
A beautiful book about Kisiizi has been produced by Travel Photographer Cecilla Guridi from Chile who spent two months in Kisiizi in 2015 and has captured a range of lovely portraits. Click on the link below for details and to see an on-line demonstration of the book: http://www.blurb.com/books/6890680-a-world-of-difference?t=1455170692133
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One of the themes of Kisiizi is Care for the Vulnerable… this little girl came to Kisiizi with severe malnutrition causing swelling of her body as seen in the two photos on the left. After a couple of weeks she was transformed…
We have many departments and do a lot of surgical procedures for which patients will travel long distances. The service is 24 hours and the photo shows a team helping a young child who has inhaled a seed or bean and has severe respiratory distress:
In addition to its clinical work, Kisiizi has a number of other activities:
- Kisiizi Hospital School of Nursing – with 289 trainee nurses and 112 pupil midwives
- Kisiizi Hospital Primary School – with around 480 pupils including boarders
- Kisiizi Hospital Community Health Insurance Scheme – with over 40,000 registered in 234 community groups in an area stretching up to 60 kilometers from the hospital
- Kisiizi Hospital Power Limited – generating hydro-electricity for the hospital and the local community serving around 1,000 homesteads
- Kisiizi Hospital Child Sponsorship Programme – with 200 orphans receiving educational and health support