Palliative Care – Kitovu Mobile

With Kitovu Mobile’s palliative care ,Fr Lukwago is bravely battling prostate and bone cancer

KALUNGU.As Fr. Joseph Lukwago shares a story of his courageous battle against prostate and bone cancer, a visibly worried lady descends to his office at Villa Maria Catholic Parish in Kalungu District. She knocks at his office door and the man of God allows her to enter. “ Good morning

Ms Rose Nabatanzi,the in charge Kitovu Mobile Medical Center,consells a visibly worried cervical cancer patient before giving her liquid oral morphin,to relieve her of pain. KITOVU MOBILE PHOTO.

How Kitovu Mobile’s Palliative Care is breathing new life into hundreds of terminally ill patients

MASAKA. Before even greeting his visitors from Kitovu Mobile palliative care team, Vincent Luyinda first asks them if they moved with his liquid oral morphine, a drug which relieves cancer patients of pain. “Yes of course. It is something we just cannot forget,” The team replies to Luyinda, a response

Rose Nabatanzi during a cancer awarness sensitisation at Kyebe Village ,Kyotera District on January 29,2019

Kitovu Mobile braces for community cancer awareness campaign

MASAKA. Cancer is a real silent killer . However, many Ugandans are still ignorant about this disease . They surround it with a lot of misconceptions and this is exacerbated by low early screening uptake hence high cancer mortality. It is upon this background that Kitovu Mobile has buttressed cancer

Mr Rugambwa speaking about economic empowerment,one of the services offered by the organisation

Kitovu Mobile work stands out during Diocesan Health Assembly

Every year , Masaka Diocese holds a health assembly where all stake holders within the diocese and from the local governments from Masaka sub region meet and deliberate on ways of improving health care services in the nine districts that make up the diocese . This year’s 10th health assembly

Palliative care soothing Luyinda from the double trauma of HIV/Aids and Cancer

Sorrow, tears and psychological pain can swallow you up when you look at Vincent Luyinda. The 32 year- old man is a resident of Misaali, a Masaka Town suburb in Masaka District. He is facing a double jeopardy of braving HIV/Aids and cancer, both dreaded ailments. Luyinda’s left hand

How nutrition and modern farming training are changing lives

Although our visit was expected, Vincent Baakabulindi could not sit and wait for us at his home at Kagezi Village in Kabonera Sub- County, Masaka District. His wife had to call him from the garden where he was planting cabbages. “I’m sorry I couldn’t sit home and wait for you,

Palliative care: Easing the pain of illness for patients

And this became the first journey of seven surgeries that he would undergo in a space of 12 months. The tumour was growing fast, but endless test results showed it was not cancerous. Photos of Okello which his wife showed us, and taken three days before we first met him