Women wait for fistula surgery at the Kamuli Mission Hospital in Uganda. Earlier this month, I visited a “Fistula Camp” run at Kamuli Mission Hospital with support from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, Fistula Care Plus project, USAID, and EngenderHealth. One of Save the Mothers’ staff—surgeon Dr. Justus Barageine—was providing care to patients there, […]
A “camp” unlike any other: The Kamuli Fistula Camp Read More »
Patients and nurses of the fistula ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda, including, at far left the young “daughter on the ward,” and at back, third from right, STM’s Academic Director Dr. Justus Barageine, fistula surgeon. Fistula. To most inhabitants of the Global North, the word is foreign. To Dr. Justus Barageine, Save
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Save the Mothers has a new academic director; Dr. Justus Barageine (pictured in the 2016/17 staff photo above in the front row, far left) was recently appointed to the role to provide academic oversight of the Master of Public Health Leadership (MPHL) program. A gynaecologist by profession, he is married with three children. Dr. Barageine first
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