Kawempe National Referral Hospital in urgent need of ventilators

“If we receive about 30 ventilators; we can comfortably run the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. When all the ventilators are occupied, the facility refers the babies to Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital Mulago but that is not sustainable."

Dr. Nsungwa describes a ventilator as a machine that helps babies born premature or very small and whose lungs are not well developed, or when their lungs are sick, injured, or when sedated for an operation to breathe. (Credit: Agnes Kyotalengerire)