Health Education - Budumba - Unassigned
Visit by Irene Nakibirango on 2019-09-20
- Report ID
- 6845
- Created by
- Irene Nakibirango
- Created date
- 2019-09-26 12:12:26 UTC
- Modified by
- Irene Nakibirango
- Modified date
- 2019-09-26 13:32:41 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:23-17:51 (7 h 28 m)
- Village Time
- 13:37-15:05 (1 h 28 m)
- Travel Time
- 6 h 0 m
Health Education Lesson
- Program
- Health Education
- Lesson Taught
- Health lesson 3: Burns and Scalding
- Men Attendees
- 5
- Women Attendees
- 13
- Staff Attendees
- 0
- Government Attendees
- 0
- Visitor Attendees
- 0
- Total Attendance
- 18
- Notes
- Irene went to Nabikenge to teach about birth preparedness,complications readiness, and emergency planning for mothers during pregnancy,child birth, infants and children under 5 years of age.
Irene started with a reminder of the previous lesson then asked the members on how they prepare for child birth in their homes or a community as a whole. Nabirye said she makes timely visits to the hospital for medical checkups, Nairuba said she has never prepared for any baby because in their clan one can only prepare for a child after they have delivered them so it’s an abomination to prepare for what the mother has not seen. Several members suggested on how they prepare for their babies and each member had a different way of doing it which included using saving boxes to raise money for hospital,buying cloths, providing transportation to hospital,and other birth materials the moment one notices the child movements are present,also monitoring their babies and children for signs of infection,some societies a woman can be bewitched and they stay with their pregnancy for ever. isabirye said he saves some of his harvests to sale when there is need and more as the group discussed.
Irene then asked the members on how they prepare for complications and emergency which involved agreeing and identifying actions that need to be taken in order to save lives, some mothers complained that their husbands are never present at home so even when they get problems are forced to use herbs and traditional healers for quick solutions. Irene and the members discussed on how to prepare for emergencies and urged the men to take full responsibility in order to avoid problems. Irene requested that they would continue with the lesson the next time they meet.
- Partner Program
- Health Education
- Lesson Use Examples
- A grandmother who wanted to improve the health of her grand daughter who was malnourished is one of the members who used the last lesson to improve their health.
- Next Visit
- 2019-09-27 - Purpose: Continue with the common causes of maternal,infant and child deaths.
- Program Success
- With the previous lesson about nutrition.A grandmother came with her grand daughter to Irene to help her asses if she was malnourished and to help her find solutions.
- Program Critical Needs
- More health lessons
- Program Ownership
- Both men and women willingly participate and ask questions in the lessons and want to know more about their health.
- Other Program Observations
- The well is in good state and the community members have well maintained it.
- Program Expected Of Village
- Mobilize more community members to come and attend the next meeting
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- Prepare the next lesson and call the community for the next visit