Akorn Philanthropy
Bwindi Community Hospital
Bwindi Community Hospital was founded in 2003 as an outreach clinic to support the Batwa Pygmies who were displaced from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest after it was made a National Park in 1993. The Batwa have been living in extreme poverty and experiencing many health challenges that poverty brings. The clinic has since grown into a fully fledged hospital offering health care and health education to over 100, 000 people living in this extremely remote area of Uganda and its vicinity.
Visit the Bwindi Community Hospital with Akorn
Working together with Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp based at the forest, Akorn has been supporting the Bwindi Community Hospital in eradicating infant mortality, fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS.
Over the years, Bwindi Community Hospital has made tremendous achievements in various areas including reducing infant mortality to just 2.2 %, while malnutrition in infants has been reduced from 13% to 3%. Only half of the adults in the Bwindi area have ever been tested for HIV, and around 10% of those tested are HIV positive. It is hoped that the gains made in infant mortality will extend to HIV programmes and fighting malaria.
Guests visiting the hospital can make donations as well as volunteer at the outreach clinics. For more information on the hospital or to include a visit to the itinerary please contact Akorn Uganda.
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