When we were starting the SSUUBO project, a sickle cell anemia clinic in the rural Buikwe region, years ago, we never dreamed that the world's most important medical journal would write about us. But dreams do come true, and in the May 2025 issue of Lancet Haematology you will find an extensive article about SSUUBO.
Zdeněk Ráčil was invited to give a lecture on the opening day of the III. Czech Hematology and Transfusion Congress and will receive two vital signs monitors for our children patients as a gift from Hradec hematologists. The attendance of the lecture and our booth was huge, thank you very much!
In the month of August, at the clinic in Buikwe, we accepted 16 new patients into the program in one week. In the laboratory, the examinations of their siblings who have never been tested for sickle cell anemia will continue, and in case of a positive result, we will include them in the chronic care program. Thanks to all our...
the SSUUBO foundation fund celebrated four years of its activity this year.
We have purchased a new machine and with it have expanded the capabilities of the laboratory at the John Paul II Clinic in Buikwe, where we are working with the project.
The working year 2023 for SSUUBO started on the first day of January. The entire project team moved to Buikwe, Uganda for three weeks. The number of patients in our care will soon reach the number of 400. Such a high number brings with it new challenges. We are therefore strengthening the local Ugandan team and further improving the quality...
A few days ago we returned from our second stay in Uganda this year.
Today's visit by Mr Charles Kyagi, Uganda's National Coordinator for Sickle Cell Anaemia at the Ministry of Health. We are proud that we were able to "shock" him with the extent and quality of care we provide to our patients. He immediately rated our program as the best in Uganda, absolutely above the level of the largest medical centers in...
Psychological support for sickle cell anaemia patients and their families is a very important part of our comprehensive care.
Today was an important day for our clinic and SSUUBO. A week ago, Mrs. Evelyn Harlow, Sickle Cell Program Officer from the Ministry of Health Uganda and Sickle Cell Network Uganda visited us to show her our work.
