Richard is from Kampala, Uganda. Richard is from Kampala, Uganda. He graduated from Makerere University with a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery. While at Makerere, he led a fundraiser for the Uganda Child Cancer Foundation and received the Student Union Certificate of Merit and the Award for Distinguished Transformation Work Amongst Students. After university, he worked in the private health sector where he helped start Agape Health Care Network, a chain of community medical clinics in Uganda. He organized medical and surgical outreach camps to under-privileged communities of Uganda. Prior to joining GHC, Richard completed his master’s degree in global health systems at Queen Margaret University in the United Kingdom. In his spare time, Richard loves to cook and sightsee.
A patient walks into a general hospital on Monday for his/her hypertension review, spends close to an hour in the waiting area, has his file retrieved, is seen by a triage nurse and then proceeds to see a doctor after waiting for about an hour in the queue. After the consultation by a clinician/physician, proceeds […]
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