Uganda has a high maternal mortality rate: for every 100,000 births, 197 women die from maternity (MPDRS 2025), 40 times more than in Italy. More than 80% of these deaths are preventable. The major causes of mortality are hypertensive disorders … Continue reading →

Since 2010, 870 young Ugandan physicians have graduated and are now working in all 40 districts of Uganda. The Gulu Faculty, sister to Frederick II, has made and continues to make a substantial contribution to the care of the Ugandan people, with special emphasis on Mothers and Children.

GULU-NAP 20 years later! Your contribution has not gone in vain. Continue reading →

Dr. Venice Omona is head of paediatrics at ‘St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor’ with 200 beds and a children’s cancer ward. Since November 2023, he has opened a new Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is currently, for 4 months, … Continue reading →

Dr. Godfrey Smart is Surgeon and General Manager of the Ambrosoli Hospital in Kalongo, which serves a vast peripheral poor region and has inaugurated, with the Ambrosoli Foundation, a New Paediatrics with 80 beds and a neonatology unit. Kalongo: New … Continue reading →

Midwifery and nursing training school Dr. Okello Bosko Otuu, a specialist in Gynaecology-Obstetrics, has opened a Maternity and Health Centre in the city of Kitgum, where several hundred women give birth. Since 2020, with the support of the Associazione INFANZIA … Continue reading →

1 March 2024 The two hospitals in Northern Uganda (St. Mary’s Lacor and Ambrosoli Kalongo) have been participating for 3 years in a project, encouraged by the Italian Cooperation, of Results Based Financing, through which hospital staff receive a significant … Continue reading →

Dr. Sylvester Ndsabjia, a graduate among the pioneers of the GULUNAP project, has become Northern Uganda’s first orthopaedic surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lacor. He has already successfully applied 22 exoskeletons (CAST), eliminating heavy and fragile casts, to forearm … Continue reading →

Five Simple Actions to Reduce Maternal Mortality: Uganda’s maternal mortality rate is about 100 higher than that of our world (350/100,000), worsened with the closure of transport due to the pandemic:   4 breaks for safe childbirth WHO (3) Reducing … Continue reading →

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