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Better maternal health care in Kojja and Mukono

Better maternal health care in Kojja and Mukono
Implementing entity: Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi Amount of co-finansing: PLN 71,778

 

Koja Health Centre III - the so called Koja Sybiraki Health Centre - is a pub­lic health centre serving about 5,000 inhabitants of the Koja peninsula in the Mukono district. The location of the centre has historic ties to Poland - in 1942, Koja received Polish refugees from Siberia who managed to leave the USSR together with the Anders Army. Since 2016, the operation of the centre has been supported by the Polish Em­bassy in Nairobi. Thanks to Polish Aid, the centre was renovated and extend­ed and a gynaecology and obstetrics ward added. The centre's medical staff was trained by Polish doctors from the “Treating With a Mission” association. In 2019, the project was continued to fur­ther expand the hospital: the maternity ward was renovated, medical personnel trained, and uninterrupted power en­sured by installing a solar panel. Thanks to support from Poland, the number of births in the hospital rose sharply from 5 to 20-30 per month. The quality of provided medical care improved, and training conducted by Polish doctors on prevention of cervical cancer, gynaecol­ogy and obstetrics helped extend the competences of nurses and midwives working at Koja Health Centre III

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