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New Vision (Kampala) - December 16, 2007
Brian Mutebi
Speaking recently, Dr. Jorge Rivera-Bernal, the president and founder of AHC, said the organisation would set up three medical camps and establish a mobile clinic delivery system (the Mobilehealer).
They would deliver medical services to the hard-to-reach-to population, those living in the slums and rural areas.
The Mobilehealer shall consist of environmentally friendly, state-of-the-art vehicles equipped with modern medical equipment. Every Mobilehealer will have physicians, nurses, X-ray and laboratory technicians who will work with Ugandan doctors.
"The uniqueness of the AHC Ugandan programme lies in the fact that instead of people coming to the clinic for medical services, we are going to the people; where they stay, meet, pray and, or work," he said.
Accompanied by Julee Schrader, the AHC programs director, officials from Health Frontiers Uganda and Elisha Nakali, the director of The Pentecostal Prayer Centre Foundation of Kenya, Rivera-Bernal visited Katanga and Kivulu slums, where they held community meetings.
He said there are still many people, especially in the slums and rural areas, who have been left out of HIV programmes.
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