Establishment of an orthopaedic workshop/outreach clinic in Gulu, Northen Uganda for major limb loss

Narrative

Our project sought to understand the prevalence and impact of post-conflict Major Limb Loss (MLL) in the Acholi Sub-Region of Northern Uganda. We used a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to define our sampling clusters. It provided the first systematic study of the prevalence of these injuries.

Using this approach we demonstrated that there were 10,117 people with major limb loss in the region (c. 0.5% of the population) who require long-term rehabilitation services, as well as 150,512 people with other disabilities (c. 8.2% of the population).

An orthopaedic workshop/outreach clinic in the town of Gulu was established. In 2019, 52 limbs were fitted using the outreach model. Local public engagement activities also took place, for example, street plays- to highlight disabled people's experience.

Impact date	2019
Category of impact	Health and wellbeing, Awareness and understanding, Attitudes and behaviours
Impact level	Benefit