Promoting Free Public Prosthetic Services Through Social Enterprise: The Ninsiima Rehabilitation Centre
摘要
This chapter describes and evaluates an intervention in the Orthopaedic Workshop attached to Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital (FPRRH) in Uganda. It opens with a short history of the workshop before describing the evolving intervention and the outcomes achieved. The intervention focused on the processes put in place to improve the procurement of materials for prosthetics manufacture and reduce the costs associated with these services. It also explains the role that social enterprise and Public–Private-Partnerships in Health have played in generating sustainable systems change.