Getting Sophisticated 14 September 2011
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: Kisiizi Hospital, Money, Nursing School, Uganda
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- Tonny makes a point
As one gets larger, the opportunities and the problems get more sophisticated. This is what’s happening to Kisiizi nowadays. Its greater stature brings new links, now with Liverpool, Basingstoke, Chester and Reading. And greater problems, frauds discovered as the new medical records system gets rolled out and the accounts get more examined.
Friends Day November 2010 13 November 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: Kisiizi Hospital, Money, Public Health
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Nancy and Wanda meet up again
Kisiizi Friends Day – always interesting things to hear. Never just a chin-wag for old chums. Again it has just met (6 November), again at Greyfriars Church, Reading,
This year Sr Nancy came from Kisiizi to tell us about the Psychiatric work she was involved in. Readers of this blog will know that she and Sr Wanda collaborated form a short while on psychiatric outreach as part of the Public Health programme Wanda was trying to put together. Just having national members of staff at Friends day s essential from our perspective. Kisiizi is not about white well-wishers but nationals leading in the work of public health, acute medicine and other evidences of God’s care for humanity.
Finance Special 17 April 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: Africa and money, Kisiizi, Management, Money
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Easter Bonus being paid, a flat rate to best benefit the lowest paid staff, like these porters.
Finance and accounting is sometimes viewed as dull. We can assure you, when a shortage of money threatens the Hospital’s ability to pay salaries, then everyone gets excited.
This posting is to let you know that we’ve set up a new Management, Finances and HR page. Pleaase visit it. We will be putting material onto this page as time goes by. There is a page on Finance and Accounting here already.
The Defaulter 28 September 2009
Posted by Bill Lovett in Understanding Others.Tags: Africa and money, Money, Uganda
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John came up to me and asked my advice about a banking matter. An innocuous
Money is always a problem
question turned out to be a sad tale. People borrow money from banks to, say, meet school fees or medical bills, or to buy tin roofing for their houses. They use borrowings to meet shorter term cash flow needs, rather than long term issues like buying land or building houses. Because there is no nationwide system of credit referencing, the banks require the borrower to get two friends to stand as a personal guarantor. This is was what had happened. Jon became a guarantor for a friend. While this is something we’d rarely do in England, here it is common. And the sense of social obligation to people you know is still high.
