We aim to offer primary healthcare, maternity services and Children's Accelerated Trauma Therapy (CATT) to refugees and locals living in Refugee Settlements in northern Uganda. Families often walk 2-3 hours to a clinic only to find poor diagnostic ability, no inpatient facilities & little medicine.
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Imagine being ill and having to walk 2-3 hours to your nearest clinic, you arrive and are diagnosed with malaria but not which type and the medicine has run out? This is reality for many refugees in rural northern Uganda. 80% of these are women and children. Maternal healthcare is poor, there is no family planning/contraceptive advice and no access to professional midwives during birth. The refugee children also suffer from physical/mental abuse and neglect but there is no support.
CRESS has experience running primary healthcare in remote northern Uganda with a team of local professionals. Our maternal healthcare outreach programme provides antenatal classes at clinics and in the field. To improve mental health among children, we will continue to support CRESS's CATT Counsellors.
