REPORT OCTOBER 2016

limited staff and dilapidated buildings. With peace coming into
Gulu and this being one of the teaching hospitals in the country
where interns are posted for a year, there was need to provide up
to date information services to the staff, students and researchers.
Through this partnership, one of the blocks was refurbished to
house a library. The librarians were trained to use Hinari and over
1,000 information materials were received from Elsevier. It has
greatly been appreciated by the staff, interns and the community
around the hospital.
Comments and Questions
1. What next? How is this going to be sustained? WHO and
the Ministry of Health continue to give technical support to
the Library. They have also linked them to other donors for
support. The librarians are also taught Resource
mobilization so that they can write proposals for funding.
One of the librarians trained wrote a successful proposal
which earned them more material. Unfortunately, the library
might run out of space.
2. Is there more cooperation like this elsewhere in the
country? There is collaboration with three other Regional
hospitals to set up libraries. All these libraries are being
encouraged to work with the public libraries within their
districts.
*A call was made to other publishers to support such initiatives.
Presenter 3: Dr. Rehema Chande-Mallya
Access to an Evidence Based Resource for Clinicians and
Faculty Of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
(MUHAS): A Pre-Survey Analysis.
This paper was a presentation of use of UpToDate within
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and the
University of Rwanda.
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