We St. Joseph Health Centre Nakabango, wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to the Committee and Donors of the KTCT for the grant availed to install solar power in our Health facility. This has solved what used to be a very critical problem of power rationing and the inability to afford the power bills ever since we received a medical fridge to keep vaccines and laboratory reagents in July 2022. We are so relieved because the risk of vaccines becoming toxic and endangering those who receive them is no more. The KTCT contribution has brought multiple impacts in enabling us to give safe medical services to the community and contributing toward the global call to fight killer diseases and promote maternal health through vaccinations. In addition, we now have adequate, reliable lighting that gives security and confidence to the medical workers and patients at night.
Below are our achievements in pictures.
The once problematic fridge was consuming a lot of electricity that we could not afford.
Abiove, the fridge after being connected to solar. On the floor, on the right side, there is a blue regulator and connecting wire.
Inside the fridge. On the left are the ice packs we used to keep the temperature low. Often whenever there were power cuts for over 12 hours which is common, we could take the ice packs to town and look for a place with power to freeze the packs.
Above, is the arrival of the material for the installation of solar energy.
Morris is at work. He did this several times to get work perfectly done. The first regulator was mechanically faulty. He got the right replacements!!
The installation in the control room. They are working perfectly well now.
Raising the panels.
Night lights.