Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Kigali
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Kigali
- Town:Kigali
- Province:
- Number of beds:560
- Number of doctors:50
- Number of nursing staff:
- Population reach:
Messages from this hospital
Onze missie in Kigali
CHUK of voluit het Centre Hospitalier de Kigali is voor Tom en mij een beetje thuiskomen.We komen er nu voor de achtste keer. Steeds weer proberen we de mensen van de Spoeddienst (want er is een groot verloop tussen afdelingen en andere NGO's) de laatste richtlijnen bij te brengen van Basic en Advanced Life Support of hoe je een patient in acuut levensgevaar moet reanimeren. Elke morgen geven we les aan een enthousiast publiek. Soms zijn het de collega's van de Spoeddienst zelf (56 verpleegkundigen), andere keren van de andere afdelingen.
Hoop in het CHUK
Beste vrienden,
voor mij de 7de keer, voor Tom de 9de keer in het CHUK in Kigali, maar dit is ondanks zoveel missies, voor mij de meest positieve van allemaal. Vorige keer in oktober vonden we de nieuwe spoed in het CHUK een megalomaan project met onvoldoende mensen, organisatie en middelen... Maar er is meer dan hoop. De dienst Neurchirurgie is ondergebracht in de spoed en Dr Muneza doet goede dingen, ik herinner me de eerste keren : veel neurotraumata, geen CT scan in gans Rwanda en geen neurochirurg. Meer artsen bekommeren zich om de patienten.
There is hope in the CHUK
Dear friends,
It is for me the 7th time, for Tom the 9th in the CHUK in Kigali. But for me, despite of so many missions carried out, it is the most positive of all. Last time in October, we found the new emergency room in the CHUK, a megalomaniac project with insufficient personnel, organisation and means... But there is more than hope. The neurosurgery department is housed in the emergency room and Dr Muneza is doing good things. I remember the first times: many neurotraumata, no CT scan throughout Rwanda and no neurosurgeon. There are more doctors taking care of the patients.
Soldaten in de straten...
Dag allemaal,
Hier een korte boodschap van Tom en Dries uit Rwanda.
We zijn veilig aangekomen zonder problemen. Gisteren korte PR zaken geregeld. Maandag beginnen de lessen.
Kigali blijft een grote bouwwerf...wat wel opvalt is het aantal gewapende soldaten op straat, duidelijk meer dan anders! Zo zagen we op het korte traject tussen de Beau Sejour en Chez Lando, gisteren 5 gewapende militairen met Kalashnikov. Ook veel meer militairen rond de Belgische school, is er iets aan het broeden hier?
vele groeten
Tom en Dries
afscheid
Een besmettelijk vonkje
thuiskomen in kibagabaga
Zondag
Een beetje verloren na het weinig werk in Kabgayi , ga ik terug naar het ziekenhuis van Kibagabaga. Is het door de rustgevende tuintjes in het ziekenhuis, de spelende kinderen of de geïnteresseerde attituden van de verpleegkundigen dat ik me ondanks de grote kloof in kennis me toch in dit ziekenhuisje het meeste thuis voel.
ballon angst
Vrijdag
Half zeven ’s morgens ik hoor de klokken luiden, wie gaat er nu zo vroeg naar de mis? Blijkbaar heel Kabgayi want als wij een uurtje later de aarde weg bewandelen naar het ziekenhuis die voor de kerk passeert ziet het er zwart van het volk die de kerk uitkomen.
naar Kabgayi
Woensdag
Onze chauffeur is eindeloos te laat. Aangekomen in Kibagabaga zijn de verpleegkundigen al ijverig bezig. Ze zijn met twee om de verbanden te doen: één doet de niet geïnfecteerde patiënten de andere de geïnfecteerde wonden. Er is ook een nieuw patiëntje, wiens hoofd, nek en armpje verbrand is met heet water. Ik probeer het kinderbadje terug te introduceren . Benieuwt of ze het over een weekje nog gebruiken.
Information about this hopital
Description
The Central Hospital (Centre Hospitalier) is situated in the centre of Kigali and is one of the biggest hospitals in Rwanda. It has 560 beds and serves about 600,000 people. The Belgian Development Co-operation Agency (BTC) has concluded a partnership agreement with this university centre. Since a BTC development aid worker is head of this ‘training cell’, MWv is working together closely with the BTC. The hospital is still operating too much as a second-line hospital: it is being overloaded with patients who should actually be treated in district hospitals. Moreover, patients cannot be transferred after treatment because district hospitals don’t know how to look after such patients.
There are 50 doctors from virtually all disciplines, including assistants in training.
As regards the CHK, it has been agreed with the CHK file manager at BTC that all expenses for the purchase of medication and material will be covered by them. To this end, only €1000 per mission will be provided by MWV in the Action Plan 2007 for supply shortages or for material which the BTC has not provided for in its budgets. We know from experience that MWV will be called upon to cover unforeseen expenses.
Since 2003, the hospital has been recognised as a university centre (Central Hospital of the University of Kigali – CHUK) and is therefore an ideal breeding ground for our missions which concentrate on training local staff.
We will be working together even more closely with the CHK in the sense that undergraduate and postgraduate specialists will be taking part in MWV missions everywhere in Rwanda. MWV will inform the CHK of all missions in Rwanda. In this way, specialists from the CHK also have the opportunity to have some collegiate consultation with their colleagues who are in Rwanda. This will only serve to stress the element of training during MWV missions.
AZV is working together with BTC and Luxembourg Development. We are organising a training programme for our teams together with the BTC. They are also helping us with the assessment of our missions and we are helping the BTC with the introduction of new material. Consultation with Luxembourg Development is in progress about the development of the laboratory.
Results of the missions
At the request of the internal medicine department (a request dating back to April 2006), we started a project in 2007 with a project on cardiology and treating diabetes. These projects appeared to run well and will therefore be reinforced in the next three years.For emergency cases, we have finally reached the point that there is a reliable head of the medical department present and that doctors are working in the department there. These doctors and the new head of department deserve some more support. The first partnership proved to be a success.
As regards the burns unit, the service itself has been reorganised over the past 3 years and is now worthy of the name ‘university’. Support is still needed so that the local surgeons can learn to apply skin grafts. These missions will be scaled down from 2009 onwards because the project is now complete after the department had been organised and a local surgeon began to carry out skin grafts on a regular basis.
As regards intensive care, we have made a fresh start (after closing the project in 2001) at the request of the BTC. It appears that the department is once again completely in need of rehabilitation. The BTC will do this and MWV will supply the human resources to put the department back on its feet in the next 3 years.
Missions to the paediatric department have been scaled down. In the next 3 years, these will consist only of subspecialists (in paediatric and pneumatology) who will pass on their technical skills to the local paediatricians, who are now quite well trained. We hope to be able to close this project at the end of 2010.
The laboratory is still a weakness due to a shortage of reacting agents. We hope to be able to assist the CHK in its quest for a constructive solution and a qualitative laboratory.
The organisation of the surgery department and the low level of the surgeons’ training is still one of the hospital’s weaknesses. In 2007, a mission was organised in order to restructure the department, but such a restructuring needs time (and missions!). We will continue to support this project for the time being.
As regards new projects, we expect to give further support to the internal medicine department in the fields of cardiology, the laboratory, and diabetes. The burns project is being scaled down, as is the paediatrics project.
At the request (in April 2006) of the head of the maternity department, we will be commencing our support for the maternity department in 2010 as follows:
- with gynaecological laparosopy (hysterectomy)
- TVT (tension-free vaginal tape) – incontinence via cystoscopy
- urological gynaecology
- reanimation of newly born babies for nurses in the delivery room.
Missions in this hospital
Active missions in Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Kigali
| Duration | Mission |
|---|---|
| 16-05-2009 - 05-06-2009 | Mission Emergency Kigali - Rwanda, may 2009 |
| 27-10-2009 - 13-11-2009 | Mission Emergency Kigali - Rwanda, nov 2009 |
| 07-11-2009 - 25-11-2009 | Mission Pediatrics Kigali - Rwanda, nov 2009 |
| 15-04-2010 - 05-05-2010 | Mission Paediatrics Kigali - Rwanda, April 2010 |






