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Uganda: DFCU Bank Offers New TB Extractor in HIV/Aids Fight
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East African Business Week (Kampala)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Kampala
Clients to the Hope Clinic now have fewer chances of contracting opportunistic diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) once the construction of an extractor hood at the medical facility is completed.
This, in addition to a reagent fridge, a microscope and an inverter power back-up system are part of dfcu's support to the clinic through their HIV/AIDS programme.
During a recent tour of the clinic dubbed "Stay Alive", according to a statement by Mr. Aaron Aguma, the bank's marketing communications officer, staff held counseling sessions, shared information on several topics with patients and parents/guardians and handed over a cheque worth Ush4million to the clinic.
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"Our pledge for 2008 is Know Your Status. Through this, we're encouraging all our employees, their families, customers and general community to take HIV tests, know their status as the future is in their hands," said Ms. Rachel Dumba, the dfcu head of human resources.
"Hope clinic and the community have benefited enormously from dfcu Bank's donations especially to the laboratory which now has a much wider range of tests to help with initial diagnosis and also monitor complications in a known patient. We can now offer updated syphilis tests, better tests for anaemia and a broader analysis of samples," the clinic's director, Mr. Philip McMinn Mitchell said.
The clinic was started in 2000 as a non governmental organisation (NGO) .
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