Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful 2023.

From all at The Rotary Doctor Bank of Great Britain and Ireland.

Another two volunteers have arrived Freda Carr Hospital. A Consultant Physician and an Occupational Therapist will be there during October.

If you would like more information about volunteering in Uganda, please contact us on rotary.doctorbank@gmail.com

The second refurbishment at Freda Carr Hospital is almost finished. Please click on “Further refurbishments at Freda Carr Hospital” to see the latest photographs.

Now that travel restrictions have been eased, we are resuming our support for volunteers who would like to visit hospitals in Uganda. If you would like more information about volunteering in Uganda, please contact us on rotary.doctorbank@gmail.com

Now that travel restrictions have been eased, we will be resuming our support for volunteers who would like to visit hospitals in Uganda. If you would like more information about volunteering in Uganda, please contact us on rotary.doctorbank@gmail.com

We have heard that secondary schools in Uganda are starting back next week after being in lockdown for most of 2121.

We will post information on this website when we receive information about the situation in hospitals in Uganda.

We have added an article by Dr Amos Odiit, the Medical Superintendant at Freda Carr Hospital, Ngora, about the improvements that have been carried out at the hospital and their plans for the future.

To see the article, please click on “Rotary and Service to Freda Carr Hospital, by Dr Amos Odiit, the Medical Superintendant”

We are not able to send any volunteers to Uganda at the moment, when travel restrictions have been lifted we will be able to resume operations.

The Rotary Doctor Bank is not sending any volunteers to Uganda at the moment.

When volunteers have been vaccinated, we will start sending volunteers when it is safe for them to travel.

Radiographers Renate Hoare and Cassie Groves have returned home after a very successful 2 weeks at Buluba Hospital.  It was Renate’s second visit to Buluba Hospital, Cassie was volunteering for the first time.  Their report has been posted on our website.  Please click on “Renate Hoare and Cassie Groves – Buluba Hospital” at the top of the home page.

Please click on “Freda Carr Hospital” at the top of this page, to see a report and photographs of the recent refurbishment at Freda Carr Hospital.

Radiographers Renate Hoare and Cassie Groves have returned home after a very successful 2 weeks at Buluba Hospital.  It was Renate’s second visit to Buluba Hospital, Cassie was volunteering for the first time.  Their report has been posted on our website.  Please click on “Renate Hoare and Cassie Groves – Buluba Hospital” at the top of the home page.

The refurbishment of the maternity unit and operating theatre at Freda Carr Hospital in Ngora, near the border between Uganda and Kenya is complete.  The opening ceremony took place recently and the units started admitting paients on Monday 2nd September.  Photographs of the refurbishment and of the openeing ceremony will appear soon.

The refurbishment was funded with a Global Grant from the Rotary Foundation and everything was planned by Rotarian Jim McWhirter, a member of the Rotary Club of Reading Matins.  This is the second major refurbishment that Jim has undertaken.  In 2014, Jim carried out a refurbishment at Kamuli Hospital.

Radiographers Renate Hoare and Cassie Groves have returned home after a very successful 2 weeks at Buluba Hospital.  It was Renate’s second visit to Buluba Hospital, Cassie was volunteering for the first time.  Their reports will appear on this website very soon.

The refurbishment of the maternity unit and operating theatre at Freda Carr Hospital in Ngora, near the border between Uganda and Kenya is complete.  The opening ceremony took place last weekend and the units started admitting paients on Monday 2nd September.  Photographs of the refurbishment and of the openeing ceremony will appear soon.

The refurbishment was funded with a Global Grant from the Rotary Foundation and everything was planned by Rotarian Jim McWhirter, a member of the Rotary Club of Reading Matins.  This is the second major refurbishment that Jim has undertaken.  In 2014, Jim carried out a refurbishment at Kamuli Hospital.