Rotary International has injected over 350 million Shillings to provide vital signs equipment to health centers in four districts.
Some of the equipment includes digital Blood Pressure machine, glucometer, strips, pulse oximeter and red thermometers among others.
Doctor Margaret Okello the Project Coordinator from the Rotary Club of Kampala Naguru says that although it is important to diagnose the patients before administering treatment, several health workers were not doing so over a lack of vital equipment.
Okello adds that a survey by the club indicated that only 3% of patients are currently having vital signs taken which means that many preventable diseases go unnoticed.
Okello says that in the project that is implemented together with Bulamu Healthcare a Non-Governmental Organization, about 141 health centers in four districts which include Luwero, Isingiro, Amuru, and Gulu will benefit from the equipment. Dr. Okello on equipment….
Yesterday, Rotary District 9213 Governor Mike Kennedy Sebalu handed over a batch of vital signs equipment worth 60 million equipment to Luwero district as part of the project. END.