Parkinson's Si Buko Uganda

Can you imagine having a neurological condition and your family won't touch you because they're afraid they will catch your condition? Or that people believe you practice witchcraft because of your condition? That is the reality in Uganda.

Parkinson's Si Buko didn't want to study from a desk or look at charts.

Si Buko wanted to take action, after all, action makes the changes in lives, studies don't.

again imagine...

In North America and Europe people with Parkinson's struggle with daily necessities. Cooking meals and doing laundry change as tasking abilities from how one did them before the disease.

Imagine having these same challenges in an area where your kitchen and laundry rooms are like these...and you have no access to medication.

We hop in the car to travel to our doctor or hospital appointment. We travel in relative comfort and safety.

Imagine balancing on a motorcycle with your Parkinson's...or having to trek through rocks on a trail to go to reach a medical facility.

Neat and orderly, clean and sanitary, we expect our hospitals to meet certain standards. Doctor exa

We walk into our hospitals the nonchalant expectation of upholstered chairs, efficient staff and sanitary conditions. Doctor exams are in private rooms with modern equipment and the hum of lights or heating /cooling systems.

Imagine overcrowding to the extent you may have to sit on the floor and your exam is done is a room that may have holes in the wall and you get to sit on a wooden bench while other people wander outside your open door.

Dispel Myths by Explaining Facts~

Remove the stigma of Parkinson's as Witchcraft; educate the public through a variety of awareness and information seminars

Train Healthcare Providers~

Hold medical conferences and distribute literature that allows for diagnosis, understanding, and common treatment of PD...one of the first to educate health care providers in Uganda.

Uganda's doctor-patient ratio is approximately 1:25,000...World Health Organization recommends a ratio of 1:1000 healthcare providers in uganda

Secure Access to Resources for Patients~

Our clinic & education help people with their PD instead of visiting ~yes~ the local witchdoctor. It's estimated that there are 3 million traditional healers (witchdoctors) in Uganda [1] but only 11 neurologists practicing in all of Uganda.[2]

As we grow, we hope to supply medication for clients...and must provide food to ensure the meds will work properly

[1] World Vision [2] Ugandan Ministry of Health