The Lighthouse Bulletin

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ICMDA NIHSJ Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 3 December 2015
Educational Postings
Midwifery Students: Were for 3 weeks in October posted to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Kitgum Northern Uganda in the
maternity wards where they had community mobilization and health education, provided family planning services,
providing antenatal care and caring for, and delivering women in labour .
Nursing Students: Had two clinical postings, one in Butabiika National Referral Mental Hospital where they spent
a month caring for mentally sick patients as well as assessing and diagnosing mental health conditions. They also
spent two weeks in some of the wards and the ophthalmology unit at Mengo Hospital.
Clinical Officers: Also had two clinical postings at Butabiika National Referral Mental Hospital, Kampala as well
as in the different wards at Mengo Hospital such as the pediatrician ward, the operating theatres and the general
male and female wards.
Midwives-St Joseph’s Hospital
Nursing Students
COs in Mengo Hospital Wards
Student Profile : Tuor Gai Mabir
Is from Bor, Jonglei state South Sudan. He is a 2nd year student studying Nursing and was in August sworn in
as the new Guild President 2015-2016. As The Guild President, he says his main focus is on his fellow the
students “We know we are in a different land so it is my responsibility to keep reminding the students of
that and advice them on how best to conduct themselves, also every month I meet with all students, find out
if there are any issues and try to solve them .”
The Guild body has about 13 guild members with ministries/posts such as nutrition, health, sports, housing,
finance, class representatives among others. He says the guild works well with the administration and that
most they have the same mission which is to make the institution successful, where there are some activities
or events, that the guild can not do on their own the administration comes in and helps.
Commenting on the general welfare of students and academics, Tuor Gai says academically, the courses they are studying are
so connected to human beings and life, and coming from south Sudan which is in many places traumatized by the crisis, it is the
students responsibility to work hard that such trauma will come to an end if they are all committed, there will be a change. So,
he advises the students, and they get together to talk about the responsibility they have to make the change to their country.
He therefore calls upon the students to make good use of this chance by being actively involved in any of the activities and in
classes and give their best.
He further adds on that though courses can be challenging most of the time, he and his fellow students are not giving up, they
try as hard as they can to carry on. The other challenge he talks about is being foreign land but so far he says they have
adapted. Tuor Gai hopes that in his time as the Guild President ,he will be to, along with his ministers, to see to it that there is
eventually a guild office, with all the needed materials for documentation so that their work may get much easier.