[Samuel Lagu]

– What evidence do I have .carefully conducting a quality study or using existing data to understand this very important.

– How does my own professional expertise and organizational access suggest where I might be most be effective in developing and launching an intervention?
1- by adhering my professional ethics
2- Having in place proffessional team to get things done better

3) What formative research might be needed to understand the precise intervention that would be most appropriate and impactful towards overcoming the challenges I identify?
– Engaging everyone and through proffesional research ie both qualitative and quantitative.

4) When considering potential interventions, what factors related to implementation do I need to consider?

– Appropriateness
– Cost
– Feasibility
– Acceptability
– Adoption
– Penetration
– Sustainability

5) What implicit biases may be at work in my culture or context and how do those implicit biases impact an individual’s ability to access and benefit from rehabilitation?
-gender
-race
-religion

[Samuel Lagu]

1. Awareness creation strategies like webinars, conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and briefing Communication strategies. Regular communication to provide updates to stakeholders, reinforce the benefits, and remind stakeholders of their commitment to integrating the intervention.
Sharing of success stories through scripts and documentaries.

2. Provide training to all the health workers and stakeholders involved in the intervention,
Providing real-time feedback through agreed channels
Encouraging cross-learnings
Provision of the necessary support, mentorship, and supervision.
Availability of data and gadgets to be used.

[Samuel Lagu]

There is urgent need to investigate the causes of rampant strokes.

[Samuel Lagu]

My country Uganda foremost need to build the capacity of our leaders on rehabilitation. As a Country there are no strong leaders that grounded on issues of rehabilitation. Even our training institutions do not have fully fledged training on rehabilitation. The National leadership training institute we have is for cadre training.

For us to also build strong leadership on rehabilitation we need to have the political will for the course of rehabilitation.

Relatedly we need to also have adequate resources allocated for rehabilitation. Once resources is available building strong leadership on rehabilitation will be possible.

[Samuel Lagu]

Have emotions.

[Samuel Lagu]

In my district Gulu in Uganda we have ReLAB-HS
Yes WHO guide to action is used.

[Samuel Lagu]

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics Census Report (UBOS 2016) indicated that 12.4% of the Ugandan
the population lives with some form of disability implying that approximately 4.5 million Ugandans are
persons with disability.
Inspite of the above official data there circumstances when certain do not divulge information on their disabillity status due to stigma.

[Samuel Lagu]

Colleaques this is a very interesting discussion, in Uganda moral model seems to be the most predominant model of disability.

For me as a person i go with the medical model of disability. For majority of the Ugandans to come out of that kind of thinking there is great need for sensitization and awareness creation.

[Samuel Lagu]

In Uganda Rehabilitation is handled mainly by the National referral hospitals, Regional referral hospitals and District Hosptals. However, my District Gulu does not have a hospital and therefore rehabilitation services are handled at the only Awach Health Centre IV and at the Health Centre IIIs. However, it is imperative to note that as Gulu District we have a very good rehabilitation referral System courtesy of ReLAB-HS. Our referral system for rehabilitation cases starts right from village health teams, Health Centre IIs,IIIs and IV then to Gulu Regional referal Hospital that serve the entire Acholi Sub region in Northern Uganda.
The major rehabilitation services at our facilities mainly include screening and handling minor cases. Please note further that in Uganda AT are mainly donated by politicians after also getting donations of ATs from donors or NGOs.

[Samuel Lagu]

Rehabiliation is helpful in giving hope to the hopeless people in our society.

[Samuel Lagu]

Thanks a lot colleagues, Rehabilitation is defined differently by many scholars and academicians, health practitioners and other bodies. However, according to World Health Organization rehabilitation is as a set of interventions, designed to optimize functioning and reduce disability in individuals with health conditions as they interact with their environment. Locally and in some communities rehabilitation is looked at as, the processes involved in repairing broken body parts, eyes, among others. Rehabilitation helps a person to be active and productive in all spheres of life.

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