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| 1930 | Ongino HospitalIn 1930, Robert Cochrane reported that the hospital at Kapiri was in the process of being contructed. Source: "Report on the Leprosy Situation in the Uganda Protectorate. Presented to the Uganda BELRA on March 24th 1930." [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |
| 1934 | Ongino HospitalThe adult settlement at Kapiri was moved in 1934 to its present site at Ongino. [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |
| 1948 | Ongino Hospital"Those who have had the opportunity of hearing Mr Ndahura speak will not forget the clearness with which he referred to the great change that came with the arrival of the new medicine, the sulphones. Then patients began to come readily, and with hope of being cured. This change coincided with the coming of Dr Wheate to Ongino in November 1948. Soon afterwards it became possible to issue discharge certificates to patients "symptom free" of the disease. (122/3 Kumi and Ongino 1958-1960, Report from Dr J Maurice Lea, Archives of the Leprosy Mission International, Brentford). [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |
| 1958 | Ongino Hospital"The Settlement has been modernised in the last three years to meet present day needs. Nearly half the 75 000 patients in Uganda today are in the Eastern province, where we are conveniently centrally situated. As far as possible we admit all children with leprosy to Kumi, where there is a full Primary School and a staff of qualified teachers, who have offered to teach here. More and more, the serious lepromatous patients and the crippled patients are admitted to Ongino. The more able-bodied attend as Out-Patients or go to the numerous treatment villages nearer their homes. There are a growing number of these villages sponsored by the Uganda Medical Department, built by the African Local Governments concerned, and the responsibility of the District Medical Officers. We co-operate in carrying out a good deal of the clinical work. This gives us many opportunities for evangelism. We are a recognised training school for leprosy orderlies who staff the treatment villages. Boys come from all over the Eastern and Northern provinces. A model farm is run at Ongino to try and encourage patients to learn new methods. In the dry season they carry out building programmes of various types. Patients are, as far as possible, referred back to their local churches, when they have been baptised and confirmed in the settlement. (122/3 Kumi and Ongino 1958-1960. Report from Dr J Maurice Lea, Archives of the Leprosy Mission International, Brentford). [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |
| 1962 | Ongino HospitalDr N D Fraser published a report of his tour of the leprosarium of this area. Of Ongino, he said: 'In the leprosarium with 400 patients under treatment everything seemed very well organised. Miss Neville's research into suitable handwork for crippled patients was meeting with real success and had already attracted a great deal of interest.' ND Fraser, "A review of the leprosy work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika", Lep Rev, 33.2, 141-53; on p. 146. [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |