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Ochola, Bayo, Alii, Ogwang); International Prevention Research Institute (
Greco); University of Montreal (
Zarowsky) The framework shed light on social and cultural conversion factors (women s status and cultural gender norms) obstructing women s full freedom in the context of implementing a participatory community intervention. Community-based women s groups using a participatory learning and action (PLA) cycle involve a trained female facilitator discussing mothers and children s health issues with women from her community. This approach is anchored in Freire s philosophy, which proposes that marginalised communities can mobilise themselves and take collective actions to address poverty and social issues. This study explored the perceived impact on women s capability of a project using women s groups practicing the PLA cycle to promote maternal and child health in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 06 2021
Treatment. Patients wait in queue to get treatment at a Gulu hospital TB ward in 2019. PHOTO/FILE.
Summary
Gulu hospital is a public hospital, funded by the Ministry of Health and the general medical care in the hospital is free. It is also one of the two teaching hospitals of the medical school of Gulu University.
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Some of the specialists recruited at the facility have left.
The hospital is now in dire need of obstetrician-gynaecologist, paediatrician, community health specialists and surgeons.
Dr Florence Oyella, the acting director of Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, yesterday said the facility has only four special grade medical officers.
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Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has funded a three-year assistance programme in the Gulu region (in Northern Uganda region). It appears to have helped with medical care and limb replacement. But critics call it a public relations move.
In the rural hamlet of Amilobo, Palema parish, Lamogi, about 20km from Northern Uganda’s regional capital city of Gulu, lives Lilly Oyella, 42, her husband Samuel Akera, a peasant farmer, with their seven children in an oval mud and wattle grass thatched house. Oyella’s tiny compound is surrounded by small gardens of yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, simsim, beans, bananas and varieties of other green vegetables – all delicacies in this part of the country -, alongside goats and chicken reared on small pieces of land. This is in the middle of a lush green expansive