Kiloleni Clinic

Two boreholes were drilled successfully by FUM nearly 3km from Kiloleni village.

One has a hand pump fitted to supply villagers living in the area and a cattle trough.

The other is used to provide water to the clinic and new maternity unit via a buried pipeline using a solar powered pump. This was completed in autumn 2023.

We hope that the borehole supply will be sufficient to make it available also at the two schools and possibly an outlet in the centre of the village.

Here the village clinic had only one maternity bed for the 8000 population it serves and the water supply is poor.
An anonymous donor generously provided the £10,000 needed for a 4-bed maternity unit extension, now completed.
FUM fundraising in 2022 was for a better water supply. A hydrological survey and test drilling found good water 2.8 km from the clinic and from autumn 2023 a solar powered pumping scheme takes this to the clinic.

The 4-bed maternity unit was completed in October 2022 and opened by the popular MP for Urambo District, known locally as Mama Sitta. It makes a great difference to expectant mothers and avoids the need for many to travel 40km to Urambo Hospital by motor bike taxi.
The generosity of the anonymous FUM donors is very much appreciated.


In Swahili the plaque reads:
"This maternity building, built with funding from FUM, was inaugurated by the Honorable Member of Parliament for Urambo Margaret Simwanza Sitta on 26-10-2022"

Since autumn 2023 the clinic and maternity unit have received a good supply of water via a solar powered pump from a borehole 2.8km away.

In October 2021 FUM received a very generous, anonymous donation that will cover the cost of building a much needed 4-bed maternity unit next to the clinic. Building work was started in 2022 after the rains had finished.

The District Council will cover the cost of the internal equipment needed.

Thanks to the success of our fundraising walks in 2021 FUM was able to fund the successful drilling of a deep borehole. This is 2.8km from the clinic so the 2022 walks will be focused on a solar powered pumping system to take the water to the clinic and maternity unit.

In 2021 the clinic used its annual £200 FUM support to buy a year's supply of gas cylinders for its vaccine fridge. This is especially necessary to prevent deterioration in the warm climate.

When FUM started supporting this clinic, as well as general outpatient services the clinic provides a good range of maternity services, also Immunisation and Child Health care. HIV programmes include Testing and Counselling and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission.

Just two enrolled nurses provide these services, compared with the government recommended roll of 15 staff, so they are kept very busy. For outreach work they have support from two community health workers.

The clinic is 45 km north-east of Urambo town, with half the road tarmac the rest rough dirt. There is one mobile phone network.

Most of the local citizens are farmers and pastoralists who grow maize, rice, groundnuts, tobacco and keep cows and goats.

The single building contains rooms for consultations, antenatal and family planning with a separate room for maternal labour and deliveries. There is a pharmacy with vaccination fridge.