Projects
Yotkom Uganda provides a full spectrum of compassionate, holistic healthcare services — from maternal and child health, surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, to dentistry, diagnostics, palliative care and community health programs.
Our 24/7 hospital and clinics in Northern Uganda deliver accessible, high-quality medical care.
Maternal and Child Health
Antenatal care, birthing suites, operating theatre and neonatal care unit. 1700+ antenatal visits, 300+ births and 100+ Caesarean sections annually
Paediatric Services
Childhood immunisation provided at the health facility and in the community. Children’s ward servicing the 50% of people in this region who are under the age of 15
Specialist Services
Access is currently provided for patients to specialists in Internal Medicine, General Surgery , Orthopaedic Surgery and Ophthalmology.
Dentistry
Consultations, checks, extraction, filling and wiring
Laboratory Services and Blood Bank
Haematology, Biochemistry, Rapid tests, Microbiology, Blood cross matching and transfusion
Medical Imaging Department
Xray and Ultrasound services
Cardiac ECG and Echo
Pharmacy
Well stocked with a wide range of medicines and medical disposables such as wound dressings, cannulas and giving sets.
Mortuary
The only cold room mortuary in the Northeast Acholi region providing support to grieving families
24/7 Emergency Department
We receive urgent medical and surgical cases at all times. Life saving interventions are provided by our highly qualified attending doctors and nurses in a well equipped emergency department.
Ambulance Services
We have an Ambulance to assist with interhospital transfers and referrals as well as provide emergency access to Yotkom for the community.
Out Patient Services
Over 25,000 people pass through our outpatient department each year and receive quality care for a variety of health needs. This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
In patient services
Over 4000 admissions to our medical, surgical, and paediatric wards annually . Yotkom is a WHO category A+ hospital with a high dependency unit to serve the most acutely unwell
Orthopaedic and Trauma services
Yotkom has a specialist orthopaedic team able to respond to accidents and injuries with the most effective interventions including manipulation, plastering and operative fixation and implantation. The timely interventions we provide can improve recovery times and reduce future disabilities.
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
Our nursing team and on site Physiotherapist assist patients with treatment modalities and exercise programs, unique to this region.
Counselling and Chaplaincy Services
Yotkom offers hope and healing for those struggling with issues of anxiety, depression, PTSD and domestic violence. We have three hospital chaplains who are on site 7 days a week to meet needs.
Community Health and Prevention
Yotkom has a strong health prevention and education emphasis.
Our Tembo Doctor FM program broadcasts health messages twice weekly to over one million listeners in Northern Uganda and South Sudan.
Our team play a key role in providing better childhood immunisation coverage to the Acholi community through our on-site clinic and outreach activities
HIV/TB Services
Testing, Antiretroviral therapy, contact tracing, PMTCT (Prevention of mother to child transmission) and EID (Early infant diagnosis)
Eye Clinic outreach
We are focussed on detection of common eye conditions and access to vision restoring therapies such as Cataract Surgery and the provision of optical aids.
The local team is assisted by regular visits from Australian Eye professionals.
Diagnostic and monitoring equipment has been donated for use in the hospital and on rural outreach.
Continuing Medical Education and Training Scholorships
Weekly in house educational events are undertaken in the Yotkom meeting room for all employees. We encourage our employees to actively pursue further education and obtain new skills.
Yotkom has a dedicated Scholarship program where gifted students or employees are identified and given financial assistance to study in a field relevant to our future human resource needs. We match generous donors in Australia with students and encourage mentoring and relationship building alongside the financial commitment.
Scholarship holders are bonded to work at Yotkom for a set period on completion of studies
Compassionate Fund
We target the most vulnerable and needy in the community we serve for particular compassionate care reflected in heavily subsidised or free treatments.
Our clinicians and chaplains provide the necessary assessments and recommendations which help us identify those most in need for additional assistance.
This can be given to key at risk groups such as Sickle Cell Disease families (130 enrolled) and Pregnant women.
Compassion funds can be deployed to assist with feeding, transport and ambulance referral costs for some patients. People suffering trauma and broken displaced bones requiring surgery and metal implants are also assisted where funds allow
Yotkom Agriculture and sustainability Project
Yotkom Uganda has 325 acres of farmland which has been developed as a eucalypt and teak tree plantation with a view to future harvesting and income generation to assist the hospital deliver accessible services at low fees and ultimately reduce reliance on donor assistance for operational costs. At times up to 400 people from surrounding isolated community are employed on weeding, planting and harvesting activities
Palliative Care
Our health services have a strong focus on pain management and palliative care. We respond to the needs of the terminally ill and those suffering from cancers and chronic diseases like Sickle Cell Disease and Arthritis. Care is provided to outpatients, inpatients and through regular community home visits. We have a team of clinicians especially qualified and recognised by the Palliative Care Association of Uganda. pcauganda.org
Chronic Disease Management
Yotkom is leading a new focus to address the rising number of non-communicable diseases in Uganda. We are seeking to improve regular monitoring and supervision of patients who are diagnosed with long term conditions like High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Chronic Heart, Liver and Kidney diseases as well as HIV and Tuberculosis. We have established a dedicated clinic for regular expert review of these patients, called:
Pi Kwo Clinic (English translation: “For Life Clinic “)
Telehealth Services
To improve access and reduce costs for health care to isolated rural communities in Northern Uganda and South Sudan, Yotkom has launched a telehealth service called Cim Pi Yotkomi (phone for your health). A consultation with one of our doctors can be arranged by mobile phone. This can reduce the need especially for our chronic disease patients to travel long distances for essential reviews.