{"id":291,"date":"2020-03-01T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/?p=291"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:15:41","slug":"kimischo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/en\/blog\/kimischo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitgum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3>Midwifery and nursing training school<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Okello Bosko Otuu, a specialist in Gynaecology-Obstetrics, has opened a Maternity and<br \/>\nHealth Centre in the city of Kitgum, where several hundred women give birth. Since 2020, with the support of the Associazione INFANZIA ONLUS Naples, he has built a building with 9 classrooms for a Midwives School with 60 pupils\/year, in an area where Maternal Mortality is<br \/>\nabout 100 times higher than in Italy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kitgum_1.pdf\">Download slide photo:&#8221;Midwifery and nursing training school&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>KIMISCHO! The Kitgum Midwifery School has become a reality thanks to the efforts of the Federiciano Athenaeum, INFANZIA Onlus and many citizens<\/h3>\n<p>In the Kitgum district of northern Uganda, battered by 22 years of unjust and heartbreaking war, women have paid the highest price for the destruction of villages and the disappearance of &#8216;Birth attendants&#8217; the traditional practitioners. Maternal mortality has increased to<br \/>\n500\/100,000 births (Italy 9\/100,000).<br \/>\nDr. Okello Bosco Otuu, among the first &#8216;pioneering&#8217; graduates of the &#8216;GULUNAP&#8217; project (Frederick II-University of Gulu), specializing in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, dreamed of opening a school to train 60 Midwives per year to be scattered throughout the villages<br \/>\nreconstituted after the war.<br \/>\nThe building, with 6 classrooms and facilities, started in February 2019 and was completed on Feb. 18, 2020 through the underwriting of a fund by the University, INFANZIA Onlus, Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti and citizen volunteers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kitgum_2.pdf\">Download slide photo:&#8221;KIMISCHO! The Kitgum Midwifery School&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Download attachments file<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/doc_Project-Progress-Report-Accountability-KIMISHCO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Completion Report\/Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depliant_KIMISCHO_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Descriptive brochure of the KIMISCHO project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/KIMISCHO_SLIDES_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slides KIMISCHO project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/BILL-OF-QUANTITY_Kitgum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill of quantity for compleation of St Mark Mid-Wifery and Nurse Trainning School<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulunap.unina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/ProgKIMISCHOApr24_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REPORTING PERIOD 26TH MARCH 2019 TO 24TH APRIL 2019<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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