Medical Outreach

The medical needs of the people of northern Uganda are enormous. Many camps and resettlement villages have no medical personnel or facilities at all. For those that do have facilities, they still lack medical supplies and medications. Additionally, with an estimated 85% unemployment rate, the people usually cannot pay for medication or medical treatment. The doctor to patient ratio in all of Uganda is 1:40,000, with a much less advantageous ratio in the north. People feel helpless and look to local witch doctors for medical help. The witch doctors only cause more harm both physically and spiritually.

Also, ignorance of basic sanitation and healthcare practices is rampant and is fueled by traditional beliefs and practices. Because of these situations, diseases which could be avoided or easily treated by simple first aid or community health knowledge often lead to serious, life-threatening illnesses.

Medical Clinic and Mobile Clinics

Favor of God's small medical clinic serves the staff, children, Bible school students, the children’s school, and parts of the community.

With our mobile clinics, medical teams travel to rural IDP camps and villages with medical supplies, basic health education, HIV teaching and prevention education, first aid, and diagnosis and treatment of simple diseases.

Community Health Program

Our community health program includes HIV prevention, mother and child health, sanitation, nutrition, prevention of communicable diseases, safety, first aid, water purification, hygiene, and teaching that promotes physical and spiritual health. This course is taught to the whole staff of Favor of God Ministries who in turn are teaching it as they disperse to their different ministries in the community, IDP camps, and villages.

Our Future:

Our goal is to train key leaders in the community, camps, and resettlement villages in community and preventive health and to establish a relationship with resettlement villages providing health care on a routine basis in those areas that are underserved or without health care.

We also have vision to build a medical and healing center within Gulu which serves the whole community and surrounding areas with a high quality and high standard of health care. It will focus on prayer, evangelism, and ministry along with diagnosis, treatment, and preventative teaching of diseases. The clinic will also serve as a resource and pivotal center for our community health outreach and health care. The cost for the clinic ranges from basic to complete at $113,518 to $191,925.

In order to pursue our vision for the mobile medical outreach, we need a more complete mobile medical clinic to travel to the remote villages for routine health care. This would include a fully equipped vehicle that can drive in the roughest conditions. The cost is estimated at $110,000. Our plan is to start with a model village then progress to as many as 20 villages. Our targets for the mobile outreach are hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, childhood disease prevention with immunizations, ante partial care, family planning, malaria prevention, and HIV prevention/education.

We plan to train leaders in these remote villages so they can empower their people to have the knowledge to make informed health care decisions. We will also continue to train our staff so they can train others when they are out in the camps doing Portable Bible Schools and Trauma Counseling. The education materials will cost $22,000.