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CMAJ
CMAJ - April 6, 1999JAMC - le 6 avril 1999

Ugandan health centre awarded subscriptions

CMAJ 1999;160:978

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association


A well-run community health centre in Uganda has been awarded 3-year subscriptions to CMAJ and its sister publication, the Canadian Journal of Surgery (see CMAJ 1999;160:63-4 [full text]). Dr. James Aw (right) of the King's Health Centre in Toronto, who visited the Mukono Health Centre in February 1998, nominated it for the award. He was particularly impressed by the dedication of the centre's sole physician, Dr. Kajja Issac (left). Fever, diarrhea, respiratory infections, HIV and malnutrition are the main medical problems facing the centre's patient base of 160 000 people. Each day Issac treats about 60 patients and refers another 20, and supervises 20 staff. He dreams of building a surgical theatre as a first step toward establishing a community hospital, but his centre currently has no medical equipment.

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