Oxygen Project Progress
You may remember that last year we bought a new oxygen concentrator for Jinja Children's Hospital. At that time, staff made us aware that a big problem for them was the state of disrepair of the existing concentrators in the hospital.
JPIP decided to commission a project to inspect, repair and maintain the entire series of seven existing oxygen concentrators and to provide two days of training for local hospital staff.
For the last 6 months we have been very lucky to work with a skilled, efficient and thorough contractor who visited the hospital on multiple occasions to complete this project.
Their reports were detailed and eye-opening - some concentrators were putting out nothing better than air! Sadly one machine was not salvageable, but with professional repairs and replacement parts where needed, all the other machines were greatly improved and returned to working order, generating at least 85% oxygen to support sick patients.
The wonderful doctors, nurses and hospital engineers of Jinja Hospital know how important our Oxygen project is, and showed their enthusiasm on a two-day training course organised by JPIP at the end of August. Six technicians and 12 clinicians came together for two days to learn all about these machines and how to maintain them.
Some feedback from the participants:
"Thanks to you as a team. I have really learned and shared knowledge."
"I request you to please come again and train more nurses because the ones trained are just minority group since we cannot divide ourselves to work on all wards."
"Thanks for this good service to save lives and share knowledge."
"Thanks - I just appreciate the training because it has help me learn more on oxygen concentrators and also given me ideas on how to work with other medical devices."
Your support matters!
JPIP’s ongoing commitment to servicing and maintenance gives around 12 children and babies access to life-saving oxygen every day.
£15 buys the filters and humidifier bottles needed to keep the dust at bay for around three months.
£41 pays for one hospital worker to attend a two-day training course in oxygen machine maintenance and repair, and share these skills with other staff, helping maintain these life-saving machines.
£85 is enough to pay for the parts needed to get a broken oxygen machine working again for around 12 months – with one machine helping up to two patients at a time, and each patient needing oxygen for a couple of days, just £85 could help 365 babies and children survive in a year!
£950 is enough to buy one new oxygen concentrator machine and help save lives for years to come.
Thank you for your support!
