Coleraine team to aid Uganda Bush Hospital

A team mainly from St Patrick’s Parish Church Coleraine will travel to Kiwoko hospital in Uganda in June to help renovate and refurbish a new
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Apr 2013, 08:00 BST
Gillian Ekin (store manager) pictured right with the St. Patrick's Church team and friends at a fundraising event in Sainsbury's on Saturday. The team are raising funds for a mission trip to Kiwoko Hospital Uganda in June. CR14-422PLGillian Ekin (store manager) pictured right with the St. Patrick's Church team and friends at a fundraising event in Sainsbury's on Saturday. The team are raising funds for a mission trip to Kiwoko Hospital Uganda in June. CR14-422PL
Gillian Ekin (store manager) pictured right with the St. Patrick's Church team and friends at a fundraising event in Sainsbury's on Saturday. The team are raising funds for a mission trip to Kiwoko Hospital Uganda in June. CR14-422PL

laboratory.

The bush hospital, founded by Ulster doctor Ian Clark, treats tens of thousands of needy patients annually and is one of the biggest hospitals

outside the capital Kampala.

Gillian Ekin, Sainsbury’s store manager and a member of the team travelling to Uganda, was delighted with the generous public and colleague support for the bag packing fund-raiser in store on Easter Saturday.

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She said: “The new lab will improve the speed and range of diagnoses offered at the hospital and will really assist the doctors and nurses

when treating the many children and AIDs/HIV patients who come to the hospital for life saving help”.

If anyone would like to donate mosquito nets, wind-up, head torches, baby vests or baby clothes please leave them in Sainsburys and they will be very much appreciated by the hospital.

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