Events

Community Eye and Medical Camp – Kiyunga Health Centre IV
Date & Time: Monday, 4th January 2027 | 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Kiyunga Health Centre IV, Busoga, Uganda
Organizers: Uganda Nurses and Midwives Association UK (UNMA-UK CIC)
in Collaboration with Bwatabingwa Busoga & Eye Health Africa

1. Executive Overview
The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Association in the UK (UNMA-UK CIC), in collaborative partnership with the Bwatabingwa Busoga leadership and Eye Health Africa, is organizing a comprehensive one-day Eye and Medical Camp at Kiyunga Health Centre IV.
This community health initiative aims to bring vital healthcare, eye screenings, and preventive health services directly to rural and underserved populations within the Busoga region, addressing preventable vision loss and general health disparities.
2. Core Objectives
• Enhance Eye Care Access: Provide free comprehensive eye assessments and supply prescription glasses to individuals suffering from preventable or correctable visual impairments.
• Promote Preventive Health Checks: Conduct general health assessments (vital signs, blood pressure, and basic physical checks) to detect underlying chronic conditions early.
• Raise Mental Health & Wellbeing Awareness: Offer specialized guidance and educational sessions on mental health awareness and overall personal health and wellbeing.
• Enable Sustainable Care Pathways: Provide signposting and referral pathways to specialist care facilities for patients requiring secondary or tertiary medical interventions.
3. Key Strategic Collaborations
• Uganda Nurses and Midwives Association UK (UNMA-UK CIC): Bringing clinical expertise, volunteer coordination, and nursing leadership from healthcare professionals in the UK diaspora.
• Bwatabingwa Leadership in Busoga: Providing local community engagement, grassroots mobilization, venue coordination, and cultural alignment.
• Eye Health Africa: Partnering as clinical specialists to ensure high-quality eye examinations, optical diagnostics, and specialized ophthalmic guidance.
4. Services to Be Provided Free to the Community
• Free Eye Screening & Testing
• Free Prescription Glasses Distribution
• Free General Health Checks (Vital signs & physical health screening)
• Mental Health Awareness & Counseling Sessions
• Health & Wellbeing Guidance
• Signposting & Referrals to Specialist Care
• Refreshments for Attending Patients
5. Community Impact
Access to basic healthcare and optometry services remains out of reach for many rural households in Busoga. Uncorrected refractive errors and undetected health issues significantly impact quality of life, education, and livelihood. By offering direct, free clinical interventions and screenings at Kiyunga Health Centre IV, this medical camp will restore sight, prevent chronic disease progression, lower local healthcare costs, and empower community members with health education.
6. Urgent Appeal for Support (Volunteers, Sponsorship & Donations)
To make this medical camp a resounding success, we warmly invite individuals, corporate sponsors, medical practitioners, and community organizations to support us.
A. Manpower & Professional Volunteers
• Clinical Staff: Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Opticians, Medical Doctors, General Practitioners, Nurses, and Midwives.
• Operations & Security: Support Workers, Administrative Volunteers, and Security Personnel.
B. Logistics & Infrastructure Support
• Transportation: Logistics support for transporting medical staff, volunteers, and supplies to Kiyunga Health Centre IV.
• Accommodation: Provision or funding for host stay/lodging for out-of-town volunteers and medical staff.
• Catering/Refreshments: Support toward food and drinks for patients and working volunteer teams.
C. Financial & Equipment Donations
• Ophthalmic & Diagnostic Equipment: Vision testing sets, trial frame lenses, ophthalmoscopes, and screening supplies.
• Prescription Glasses & Frames: Bulk donations of reading/prescription glasses.
• Financial Contributions: Direct funding to cover operational costs, patient referrals, transport, and medical consumables.
7. Contact & Information
To volunteer, partner, sponsor, or inquire further about how you can support:
• Email: unmauk@gmail.com / bjeangideonk@yahoo.co.uk
• Mobile / WhatsApp: +44 783 874 9793

"Strength in Unity – Together for Better Community Health"