RE: THEATRE & LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS FOR RACKOKO COMMUNITY
HEALTH CENTRE.
There is a population of over 6,500 people in Awere Sub County which Rackoko is its main
urban centre and Rackoko Community Health Centre (RCHC) is the main and leading
Health Centre.
Under Rackoko Community Health Centre (RCHC) are:a) Laboratory

Testing for all diseases
b) HIV/AIDS

Testing, Counseling and Guidance

Treatment and providing food supplements

Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), etc.
c) Transport
Under this service:
-
We transport patients using the RCHC Ambulance Van to other neighbouring hospitals
(Referral patients) or back to their homes.
-
Follow-up of patients and teaching relatives how to administer medication and treatment
to the patients at their homes.
- Counseling and encouraging the people who take care of the sick at home.
d) Ambulance Services
Under this service, we provide regular visits to the market places from the extreme Northern
part of Awere sub county to the extreme Southern and from the most Eastern part to the
most extreme Western part of Awere sub county for mobile treatment from our Ambulance
Van by our qualified nurses.
e) Outreach / Home Visits
This is where RCHC goes out in the villages for sensitization, treatment of minor diseases,
training of workers about Preventive Medicine, for Vaccination, Immunization and Training
the Traditional Birth Attendants among others.
f) Out Patient Department
This is for Casualties, first Reception in the RCHC, Examination and treatment where a
patient may be admitted or go back home or to other Health Centres or theatres.
g) In patient Department
For this, we have the Children’s Ward, Female Ward, Male Ward, Isolation and Emergency
Departments from where they are being treated and monitored before they are discharged.
h) Dental
Here we provide simple dental cleaning, treatment, dental extraction
OUR PLAN
To upgrade Rackoko Health Centre III to Health Centre IV so that it may move to another
level.
We need a theatre for minor and major operations and minor improvements of our current
laboratory. Without minor or major operations a health centre cannot be called Health
Centre IV because it lacks completing the services of treating patients.
We plan to open a Health Centre IV in October 2011 which will be the first and the only one
in the whole of Pader District and these call for other important tests like Complete Blood
Count(CBC), Chemistry analysis, Live Function Test (LFT), Renal function Test (RFT) Filled
at least.
Coming up with the proposed plan it will then be possible to carry out the above mentioned
tests and to offer other services as may be required by different patients from more senior
Health Centre staff.
Challenges faced
Inadequate and complete lack of important equipments to carry out certain tests has made it
very difficult in this era of HIV where very many tests have got to be done. Sometimes the
patient does not get the best service because there are no equipments to help us in offering
that required service.
RCHC lacks enough facilities as mentioned above to meet the community health needs and
offer the services required by various patients.
At the moment RCHC has a hall which we can convert and turn into a theatre at our cost and
it has a laboratory which is however, not stocked.
In OPD (Out Patient Department) and IPD (In Patient Department) we, on a daily basis, get
so many cases / conditions that need operation such as:1.
Medical conditions
2.
Surgical conditions
3. OBS/Gyn conditions
Therefore if RCHC is fully supported with the list of items we sent to you, it would offer
most of the required services.
In the list of the theatre equipments we sent to you last time, those are still the major
equipments needed to start a theatre where both minor and major operations can be possible
if those equipments are available in the health centre then we would achieve our dream of
touching the health of many people in communities.
In this project, we hope to work hand in hand with you and with the Pader District Health
Authority to promote better health services to the patients and the community we live in so
that good health is promoted.
Yours sincerely
Francis Odida
REQUEST FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES TO RACKOKO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE III
TO BE UPGRADED BY 2012
NO
ITEM WARD SECTION
FEMALE WARD
Male
QUANTITY
ward
1
Drip stand
5
5
10
3
Stretchers
2
2
4
4
Hospital trolleys
4
4
8
5
Mattresses
10
10
20
6
Brackets
20
20
40
7
Bed sheets
20
20
40
8
Pillows
9
Bed pans
10
Bed side rockers
11
Cardboards
12
Curtains
13
Urinal
OPD SECTION
40
5
5
10
10
10
20
2
2
4
10
10
20
5
5
10
Se vedlagte skema
14
Examination bed
2
15
Dressing bed
2
17
Cardboards
3
18
Chairs
Er ankommet
8
19
Table
Er ankommet
20
BP machines
4
21
Stethoscope
4
22
TV screen for waiting patients
23
Hospital screen
24
Curtains
25
Oven
1
26
Autoclave
1
Er ankommet
5
1
3
10
OFFICE
27
Computer
Er ankommet
1
28
Chairs
Er ankommet
8
29
Tables
Er ankommet
5
30
Filing cardboards
2
31
Contains
2
Dressing room
32
Big forceps
5
33
Small size forceps
5
34
Bowels
5
35
Receivers
5
36
Small scissors
5
37
Big size scissors
5
38
Small size drum
2
39
Big size drums
40
Theatre equipments
41
Lab equipment
42
Ultra sound scan
2
Se vedlagte skema
RE: LIST OF THEATRE AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS.
S/NO. THEATRE EQUIPMENTS
1.
Oxygen Concentrator
2.
2 Operating Beds
3.
3 Operating Lights
4.
4 Sanction Machines
5.
3 Trolleys
6.
Oxygen Cylinder
7.
Sterilizer Auto clave
8.
Sickle Jar
LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS
1.
Colorimeter
2.
Density Analyzer (Manual)
3.
Centrifuge
4.
Autoclave
5.
Hot Air Oven
6.
CBC Machine (3 ways)
7.
CD4 / CD8 Machine
8.
Air Conditioner – To provide the right temperature for
proper function of the machine
9.
Incubator