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EMMF:
Making a Difference in Uganda
Site Visit
This was done by Scott Kellermann,
M.D., his wife, Carol Keliermann, and his son, Joshua Kellermann.
PURPOSE
To assess the needs of the Batwa
Pygmies.
PREPARATION
The plight of the Pygmies was brought
to our attention through the Episcopal Medical Mission Foundation in
conversation with, the executive director, Dr. Tom Williams and Mrs. Diane
Stanton, the American Project Coordinator of the Pygmy Resettlement Project, in
the United States, together with communications with Archbishop Livingstone
Nkoyoyo, Bishop John Ntegyereize, and Dr. Hector Tibeihaho in Uganda. Bishop
John and Dr. Hector expressed the need for the purchase of a refrigerator in
order to store vaccines so the Pygmies could be immunized and also suggested
that medications be procured in order to stock the clinics.
TRAVEL
The
flight was from San Francisco to London to Entebbe, costing approximately
fifteen hundred dollars per person.
CLIMATE
Cool evenings with warm days.
The elevation is 4,000 to 5,000 feet.
DRESS CODES
Ties, slacks, and clean shirts are
standard for men. For ladies, dresses and skirts are appropriate.
VISITING
KAMPALA
Electricity is unavailable in the
Kinkiizi Diocese; therefore, a paraffin/kerosene refrigerator was purchased in
Kampala and transported with us to the Kinkiizi Diocese. Also, medications appropriate
for diseases of Africa were purchased at the Joint Medical Store in Kampala,
run by the Anglicans and Catholics. Of note is that chloroquine, which is the
most common treatment of malaria, is exceedingly expensive in the United
States, selling for approximately seven dollars a tablet, whereas at the Joint
Medical Store in Kampala, chloroquine could be purchased one thousand tablets
for seven dollars.
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