We had a clear plan: in October, we announced a halt to the admission of new children in order to focus all our energy on building a new clinic. But the reality on the ground and the insistence of our local team did not leave us cold. We stepped back and opened our arms to other fighters.
It was a golf trip that raised more than 300,000 CZK for the SSUUBO Foundation!
The architects created a design that respects local materials, technologies and Ugandan traditions. The four pavilions with a central atrium – a public space for children to spend time and play – were created with a tight budget for the construction based on Czech donors. "We ourselves try to support charitable projects on a personal level for...
We have published annual report for 2024 year, thank you for reading it on link below.
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...
