General Practice, Primary Healthcare - our out patients services
Hope Clinic Lukuli began with Joyce Bbosa as a solo-midwife helping pregnant women and trying to mitigate the effects of fevers and diarrhoea in children and adults. Over ten years later, the patient who arrives at the clinic - and we are open 24 hours, every day - is most likely to be an out-patient. Many are reporting fevers, nausea or vomiting, but infections of the skin or eyes or the first identifications of malnutrition are equally likely. The nearest government staffed facility is over 3miles (5km) by road which takes time and money to reach. The larger, fee-based hospitals are also 2 miles away and many clinics that are nearer are run for profit and for patients with the ability to pay higher prices. Our staff are highly trained and our range of equipment is above that normally found at a Health Centre grade III but our goal to is remove the financial barriers to advice and diagnosis.

Our new facility - serving out-patients	Consultations - still only Shs 1,000	Diagnosis is essential to getting help

The original clinic saw very few patients per month, it was also very small. By 2004, we attended to over 350 a month, the new premises were built and opened in July 2005 and out-patients grew to over 600 a month. We asked the community and they said we provide Affordable Medical Treatment for Good and Caring Staff. We have kept the charge to see Omusawo at Shs 1,000 which was the price of a very basic meal when we started - that meal costs much more now, but we keep medical consultations accessible and lab tests are also very fairly priced. A survey we under took on 2009 revealed that ours is the only lab functioning after dark in Lukuli parish (home to 12,000 people).

The out-patients department comprises clinical officers, midwives, nurses, laboratory and pharmacy staff as well as the counselling team and community outreach workers. We have three wards with a total of ten beds if admissions are necessary and we can refer more serious or surgical cases to larger hospitals - many patients are reluctant to leave our care! You can help our work - sponsoring the cost of employing a nurse or clinical officer means we can reduce or remove the costs associated with treatment. Our very low consultation costs are recouped through post-diagnosis care and admissions but with your help, the burden faced by the patients can be reduced.