About Me

This blog is about Andrew Mockridge, a 5th Year Medical student and his elective in Gulu Uganda. During the 2 months, he shall be working in the Gulu Regional Referral hospital and the surrounding district undertaking research and clinical work in the hospital. The people of Gulu have suffered immensely in a recent civil war with the LRA in Uganda. Many lives have been lost and the rebuilding of infrastructure, education and communities still remains to be developed to this present day. TB and HIV are very prevalent in the region and this is where the research will be centred. I will be collecting patient details from local health offices and visiting the rural districts to identify suitable patients and arrange them to be seen by the research team in May/June time. The other part of my work will be spending time looking after poorly patients in Gulu Regional Referral hospital. I'm sure I will learn alot from a healthcare system so different to our own!

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Gulu Time!

I arrived in Gulu this evening around 6pm setting off from the ARA at 11am on a rural journey through some of the most beautiful parts of Uganda. For a start, I will never complain about my Father's driving ever again...The roads are a massive hazard and there seems to be no concept of courtesy on the roads. It is basically, the larger your vehicle the more right of way you have. We have often been demoted to the road side from larger vehicles but better than a crash I suppose!


I took a number of pictures on the journey and many people live in mud huts and congregate around the road to sell whatever they have..fruit, shoes, meat, fake medicines etc. I am at the African Medical student conference tomorrow at 8am, so bit of an early start! Mosquitos are biting the shit out of
me so been told to eat lots of garlic - Debbie, I shall not embrace them ;)


Have unloaded all the medical supplies ready to take to the Hospital tomorrow. I'm sure they will appreciate it! Looking forward to meeting some Ugandan Royalty tomorrow too!


Road going into the centre of Kampala


Some delightful Veg shops on the road side


The tradition way of carrying your shopping from Tesco


Banana Trees - shame I hate the bloody things (Catherine can have them instead)



Roman roads are not just found in the UK!



The Nile



Crazy monkey showing some love


The "Fake" doctors...as if people pay for this shit!?

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  1. jean mc26 March 2012 at 11:45

    love the chimp . stay safe x. weather is fantastic here. cracking the flags. could even fry your chickens eggs on them. off to France in a few days x

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