Provide 500 subsidised spectacles
every 6 months.
Run 3 eye outreach clinics every year
including providing cataract surgery.
Provide at least 200 free false teeth or dentures per year and at least 400 free teeth extractions or fillings per year during our outreach clinics.
Support Community Health Workers to deliver education about nutrition, disease prevention, antenatal care, eye health and oral health to the community.
The annual dental check clinic for the KCC children was held in the DMC building in January
2020.
During the clinic, a girl had a treatment providing her with a full new set of teeth,
performed by a local Ugandan dental practitioner
In June 2018 a set of triplets was brought to KCC, one of whom had bilateral club feet.
Doctors from Mulago Hospital performed the Ponseti method on him at DMC. Today he walks normally.
In October 2022 when the clinic was installed, 2 days of dental & eyecare outreach clinics were held.
In the dental outreach clinic:
117 patients were treated (90 female (77%), 27 male)
99 teeth were extracted
10 dentures were made
In the eyecare outreach clinic,
293 patients seen (234 female (80%), 59 male)
100 pairs of reading glasses were dispensed (= 34% of attendees)
12% of the patients seen needed cataract operations – 0% could afford them
NDE is a UK-registered charity (number 1111488)
NDE USA Inc is a 501©(3) non-profit & a USA-registered charity (CHR.0057876)
Hartma Foundation trading as Destiny Medical Centre is a Ugandan Company Limited by Guarantee (Registration number 80034851038009)
NDE is Nation’s Discipleship Enterprise – the charities raising funds to support the NDE projects in Uganda, including Destiny Medical Centre and Kampala Children’s Centre.
