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Oxygen Delivery to premature babies a problem at Hoima Regional Referral Hospital: A call for more partnerships and Collaboration.

The GCB program funded by Tropical Health and Education Trust to the Ubora Foundation Africa-Eye Health Africa partnership has helped us identify various bottlenecks to effective service delivery to premature babies at the facility. Through some of the routine visits, we identified significant hindrances to optimum oxygen delivery at the facility. The facility still lacks conventional Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) bubble circuits to deliver optimum oxygen to the preterm babies delivered at the facility...

January 2024

The Large Global Capacity Building Grant from THET-NHS in partnership with Eye Health Africa

Towards the end of 2023, Ubora Foundation Africa was privileged to be awarded a large global capacity-building grant in partnership with Eye Health Africa to advance capacity building and improve neonatal care in Bunyoro Sub-region. This grant was awarded by the Tropical Health and Education Trust with funding from the National Health Services England (NHS). The grant predominantly focused on enhancing the capacity of neonatal nurses, midwives, and clinical ophthalmic officers to screen for Retinopathy of Prematurity among premature babies delivered at the hospital...