Ante-natal checks, delivery support and neonatal care
The clinic has two delivery rooms and a total of ten beds across three wards and space for ante-natal discussions and examinations. We also encourage all pregnant women to know their HIV status as we have necessary drugs to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT). During the Tuesday 'booking-in' ANC sessions, the women are taken through a review of their health, past pregnancies and deliveries and their household situation. In line with government health policy laboratory tests are performed and we can provide iron and vitamin supplements as well as intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) for malaria. Through a partnership with another project we also distribute LLIN mosquito nets to each pregnant woman.

Mums and Dads are helped	Baby is safe with Hope Clinic	Maternity room for check-ups

The provision of maternal care during delivery and the immediate post-delivery care for the baby and the mother are struggles in all countries with rapidly expanding populations and under-funded health services. With the help of donations and our relationships with other implementers, we do what we can. Our midwives and nurses are caring and patient and mothers have a delivery room to themselves, hot showers and nearby toilet and then can rest after the delivery in the maternity ward with their baby safely in a cot next to them. Support from DFCU banking group and the Royal Embassy of Belgium means that we can more effectively monitor the baby during delivery and have oxygen and instruments to care for mother and baby in the critical first hours.

You can support us to keep the costs faced by the patients to a minimum. Hope Clinic Lukuli does not exist to make profits to pay offsite managers - all the receipts and donations pay for the Ugandan staff working at the clinic, the upkeep of the equipment and facility and the drugs and consumables we use to look after the patients. If the items are given free to the clinic, such as mosquito nets for pregnant women, we pass them on to the patients. If a sponsor, such as Aggreko in 2006, can meet the cost of a midwife's employment, that means we don't have to include that cost in the charges for deliveries at the clinic. Use the PayPal button to donate now, or use Gift Aid in the UK. Our midwives represent a cost to the clinic each month of Shs 500,000 (GBP 150, USD 200). Our Bank Details are here

If you would like to receive our list of needs, please contact us by e-mail at support@hcluganda.org