Hope Clinic Lukuli

Hope Clinic Lukuli (HCL Uganda)

Postal Address	P.O. Box 4290, Kampala, Uganda
Street Address	Lukuli-Makindye
Tel	+256 (0)712 738076
Fax	-
E-mail	clinic@hcluganda.org
Web Address	http://www.hcluganda.org
Year Established	2000
Contacts	Mrs Adalina Lubogo, Co-chair and Director Ms Clare McMinn Mitchell, Co-chair and Director Mr Philip McMinn Mitchell, Secretary and Director
Mission	To maximize access to and availability of healthcare and information to the community of Makindye.
Geographical area of operations	Makindye Division – including the areas of Lukuli, Nsambya, Kansanga, Kizungu, Konge, Bunga, Ggaba and surrounding parishes. We see over 500 out-patients for GP cases a month, plus 60-70 ANC clients and 50-60 HIV clients a month.
Issues area of operations	Hope Clinic Lukuli is an integrated health facility (HC III) offering in-patients and out-patient services. Technical areas include reproductive health advice, ante-natal checks, delivery assistance, peri-natal care, child immunization, full laboratory services, malaria and other disease management, HIV counseling and VCT, PMTCT and provision of related drugs, youth group, HIV awareness training, mosquito net retreatment and outreaches to the community. We are an accredited HIV Treatment Centre.
Activities	As noted above – we are open 24hours a day, with admissions to three wards plus 2 delivery rooms. The facility offers hot water, flush toilets and continuous power supply. Monday mornings offer free child immunizations, each day offers free HIV counseling and testing with an additional VCT counselor on Saturday and PMTCT combined with ANC classes on Thursdays. Medical consultations are with a doctor or registered nurse and laboratory staff are on site 16 hours a day. In 2004 and 2005 we built (and opened on 5th July) our own health facility which greatly assisted our client service capabilities. It was funded by members of the NGO with contributions from Roofings Limited, Sadolin, Hwan Sung, Standard Signs, CTM, The Tile Centre, Belgian Technical Cooperation, Rotary International, family and friends.
Affiliation(s)	We are independent of any organization which could limit our access to the community and yet coordinate our work with Makindye Council (for mosquito net retreatment), with KCC (for child immunization vaccines) and Ministry of Health for VCT kits. We are preparing MoU with JCRC for mobile ART and paediatric consultations and with TASO for adherence counselling and material support. We are a registered NGO and have been confirmed by the URA as having a charitable purpose for receiving donations. We formed a UK charity which can collect funds with the benefit of Gift Aid
Dissemination	We stock and distribute Straight Talk, Young Talk, Positive Living, Rock 256 and an in-house publication covering VCT and palliative care. This publication was sponsored by Aggreko Ltd (providing the power generators to Umeme). We maintain a website at www.hcluganda.org which holds statistics of our patient numbers and cases and we submit the HMIS #105 to Makindye.
Target Audience	We target the lower income households in the community and based on our patient records 60% of our clients are female and 40% are children under 5yrs. We therefore particularly cater for women in their own right and as mothers/ caretakers of children. We would like to increase our work with youth and so in December 2005 launched a youth group with the Ministry of Gender’s Youth Truck and Straight Talk which now meets on a weekly basis.
Additional Information	We welcome referrals from fellow members of WOUGNET and are very keen to share our experiences of working with health and information programmes in Uganda and overseas. The Hope Clinic Lukuli continues to increase its linkages to the community level health providers and to be recognised by the city council and Ministry of Health as an important participant in health services provision. Having completed seven years since its foundation, and two years in the new premises, the clinic has a broad range of collaborations. The following are examples of public private partnerships in Makindye Division, part of the capital city, Kampala: Malaria treatment, Malaria prevention, HIV counselling and testing, HIV Care and Support, Maternal and reproductive health, HIV and STI medications, and Local partnerships. Read about this initiatives in the report Public Private Partnerships in Health Service Provision – Examples in Makindye, Uganda

Last update: September-16, 2007