Another discovery on my recent trip to Uganda is the growing use of technology to augment the ability of lower skilled health workers to improve care delivery. The Healthy Child Uganda cell phone project, funded by an aid organization from Canada, is a perfect example.They have piggy-backed a cell-phone based technology project onto a Uganda national government initiative to utilize communty based...
Trauma and Critical Care at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
I joined the Trauma Unit at the University of Witwatersrand Medical School, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesberg Academic Hospital at a volunteer faculty surgeon for a few weeks last month. It was my first time in South Africa although I had worked and travelled in Uganda and Mozambique before. ...
Use of bednets in rural Ugandan households, Paul J. Krezanoski, MD
My work in Uganda is related to understanding the determinants of the use of bednets. These insecticide-treated nets have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of pregnant women and their children. Mere ownership in a household has been correlated with a 20% decrease in mortality among children under 5 years of age.Uganda and especially western Uganda, has a very high level of malaria. It...
