Community Testimonials

Taking Under Dos

It started as a small thing at my village mwalo-kyabakuza. Staying with my grandfather was all fine untill when I got some headache which eventually tested to be malaria that even led to temporary loss of consciousness. Our nearby drug shop always offers us drugs that we continue taking whenever we are unwell. Still this time I was taken there and given drugs after a while the same condition came back and again given drugs at this point my grand told them how he could no longer buy these drugs, however, the attendant assured him that he can still raise the little he had so that they would offer us the drugs. Many times would feel loosing myself, the disease would just increase and feel even abdominal pains.

I stayed in this situation for quite a long time. When my friend John came to visit me he told me how tough this situation would be if I failed to see the qualified Dr. but still what could we use to pay the Dr. yet even the simplest drugs we couldn’t afford? It was then I started thinking what I had seen a new premise in our trading centre labelled A community pharmacy told my grandfather to take me there since it was close even to our home.

First impression was an introduction and background of our condition, talking to a pharm technician at the community pharmacy took us just thirty minutes and we were all contented by the exhibition of a high level of professionalism at this health unit which had just been established by then. The prescription given to us was totally based on the history that we gave out. After all this my grandfather was told that I was always taking under dose due to our affordability of which made it difficult for me get healing. My colleagues are dying under this situation but when ssanyu community health organisation came to our village, a testimony is being created.

You Can Help To Eradicate This Problem And Save The Community People Against Taking Under dose by

Paying the professional health workers full salary/half/ any contribution at the community pharmacy so that they are available to serve the underserved population of the community.

The table below shows the amount of money needed to pay professional health workers in Ugandan Shillings and US Dollars. Remember, every contribution matters

PROFESSIONAL	NO.	AMOUNT(UGX) PER MONTH	AMOUNT(USD) PER MONTH
Community Pharmacist	1	2, 000,000/-	$554
Community Pharm Tech	2	1,300,000/-	$360
Community Nurses	2	830,000/-	$230

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Drug Abuse

Am the eldest of my family and our home has 3 children. My father works in the market in the next trading centre selling charcoal of one thousand shillings and two thousand known as the cavera (plastic bag), this is the way we survive and get our daily food, medication, school fees and other needs.

My younger brother started complaining about the stomach pains way back in 2016, we suspected something wrong and as always we go ahead to go to our nearby drug shop. We started buying drugs for stomach pains which he took for over two and half years. There was no time ever received any advice whether the drugs we used to take were the right ones and right dosage we just took similar drugs over and over time.

It was in 2019 when my aunt a sister to my mum told us that there was a group of medical people that had come into our village treating people, counselling them at no cost at all. I was forced to find this group though never knew their name it was after reaching them that I got the name being Ssanyu Community Health organisation headed by a couple operating a community pharmacy in our area as well.

Even if my brother would no longer move properly I had to explain to these medical people and asked me to host them at my home which I welcomed with pleasure. Reaching home was an honour because even the neighbours got the opportunity to come and meet Ssanyu organisation team. Without any other minute they started examining my brother and the other team looking at the medications that my brother was taking. They found it out that surely the drugs we took were not the right ones and also we took them in huge amounts for a long period of time that actually led to causing more harm to my brother than healing. The pharmacist herself recommended us to go and see the consultation physician whom she believed will do the rest of the tests. We went straight the following day struggling with transportation from the deep village into the city where the physician would be seen. He took us through all the procedures and unfortunately my brother was examined with liver Fibrosis. This was manifested in the fatique, abdominal pains,dark coloured urine, yellowing of the skin and the eyes,diarrhea and also itching was too much by the time we got engaged with ssanyu organisation my brother had lost appetite as well. This is when we knew that we were victims of Drug abuse and had we known ssanyu organisation before starting any drug possibly we would not have lost my brother to liver Fibrosis. I know so many people in our communities are passing on day and night due to such reasons that are extra hard to combat by even a single entity like what ssanyu organisation is doing.

You can give a hand to this problem and save the underserved community people against drug abuse by

1. Paying the medical teams in our outreach programs to counsel and offer preach more medical advise

2. Facilitating our medical team with A van to fasten both their movement into the hard to reach community areas and fetching the patients who can’t reach the community pharmacy or referral points more specially the disabled and the elderly plus the children.

3. Facilitating our teams with Tents to provide shade in the remote areas

4. Restocking more community drugs into the community pharmacy so that availability is scored.

5. Paying A consulting physician a monthly salary to assist the underserved people

6. Recruiting and facilitating more pharmacists to help reach further hard to reach areas

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Consumption Of Expired Drugs

I came to know Ronny as a friend who used to assist my son with mentorship, after a long time I heard that he had started a pharmacy in the community area of my village kyabakuza ( brothan pharmacy). I was filled with joy and at the same time wondering how a person leaves the city centre and risks the pharmacy into the outside of nowhere. At this point my father suffered with Diabetics and pressure and always took drugs from the nearby clinics that even never had proper names. I remember one time my father got paralysed and immediately rushed to that one near by drug shop and after spending soo much time we were given some drugs to take.

After taking these drugs we realised that our father’s life kept reducing instead, this is when one neighbour told us that we had to go to the community pharmacy that had come to our place and that was brothan pharmacy under ssanyu community health organisation.

We made consultations and immediately my father was checked pressure and his sugar levels after which we were asked to produce the drugs we we were using and handed to the pharmacist, to our surprise all the drugs were expired. The pharmacist replaced the drugs with the right ones and prescribed the right dosage to our father. From that day we made the community pharmacy our health unit till today. Am very sure so many people in my area are passing a way every day in such a way without recognising that they are taking expired drugs. My father yes passed a way two years a go but was contented at least with the medical care of brothan pharmacy under Ssanyu community health organisation but I know this is a drop in an ocean because so many people are victims of this in my community.

You can help and donate to curb this problem so as to save the community people against taking expired drugs by

1. Contributing to paying a consulting physician

2. Restocking the community drugs into the community pharmacy to ensure availability

3. Help set up a mobile clinic into the remote areas to handle those in emergency

4. Set up rehab centres for those under intensive care as a result of this vice

5. Contributing to the fees of the supervising pharmacist

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