Journey to Lacor Hospital

Lacor Hospital near Gulu, in Northern Uganda, is a 500 bed private non profit Hospital founded in 1959. In 2006 the Hospital's 570 Ugandan staff (including 35 doctors) treated 36.343 in-patients and 251.737 out-patients, 50% of whom are under six years of age.
The Hospital has never stopped growing, despite the first dramatic periods of insecurity in 1979 during the incursions by the disbanded army of Idi Amin fleeing to Sudan and throughout the over 20 years of civil strife due to the LRA insurgency.
Drs Lucille Teasdale and Piero Corti are a couple who directed the Hospital from 1961 to their death; Lucille was a surgeon and died in 1996 due to surgically acquired AIDS, but worked in her Hospital until the very last.
The Hospital has withstood lootings during the eighties, when nurses would go to work at night in civilian clothing to reduce the risk of being kidnapped by the looters.
It survived the nightmare an Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak in 2000, when a group of heroic staff volunteered to work in the isolation unit, risking their lives for the sake of their patients. Matthew Lukwiya, then medical superintendent, and twelve other staff died because of their selfless belief in their mission.
The slideshow was prepared and commented by dr Dominique Corti, who was born and grew up in Lacor Hospital and is Member of Lacor Hospital Board of Directors.

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• Teasdale
• Lucille
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[katykatrinka]

Ebola exists in more than just 3rd world countries though. It's everywhere. Except you don't get sick unless you come into contact with a strong enough strain. Weak strains will just make you feel a little sick - well, compared to strong strains anyway

[Ugandangirl]

OMG, my daddy didn't give us a lot of money. But exposed us to see the world! This is one hospital that he had me visit was many baby sister when I was 15! wow....

[Ugandangirl]

OMG, my daddy didn't give us a lot of money. But exposed us to see the world! This is one hospital that he had me visit was many baby sister when I was 15! wow....

[Ugandangirl]

OMG, my daddy didn't give us a lot of money. But exposed us to see the world! This is one hospital that he had me visit was many baby sister when I was 15! wow....

[Ugandangirl]

OMG, my daddy didn't give us a lot of money. But exposed us to see the world! This is one hospital that he had me visit was many baby sister when I was 15! wow....

[Michaelingolfhansen]

Yes!

Instead of using money on war, these should be used to take care of the many serious health issues in the third world. Hunger, HIV, Malaria. Ebola, as horrible as it is, is however just one small drop in the ocean.

Theres is a lot of work to be done.

[snowgirl1455]

No one realizes how leathel and volatile Ebola is. This recent outbreak in the Congo highlights how more money needs to be given to medicine. The Congo is where we began and what we need to save. Ebola looks and sounds like the worst disease to die from. We need to stop focusing on a illegal war and start to focus on Africa. Darfur and the DRC should be our number one priorities. I understand that people would still be pissed off but a cure can be found. We only need to work on it.

[jejeson]

hey, thanks for your love. am ugandan but i have never been to gulu. amazing how u got the guts to go there, in that war torn region. God bless you.