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On Uganda's Terms: A Journal by an American Nurse-Midwife Working for Change in Uganda, East Africa During Idi Amin's Regime |  | Author: Mary M. Hale
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 140
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1926585135
Dewey Decimal Number: 609
EAN: 9781926585130
ASIN: 1926585135
Publication Date: December 30, 2008
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On Uganda's Terms is the gripping tale of the author's experiences as an American nurse during the vicious and brutal reign of Idi Amin. Ms. Hale tells the story of the struggles she faced while striving to improve the Ugandan health care system in the 1960s - 70s. Recalling a saying from the Talmud-"If you can save one life, you can save a generation," she worked to improve health care in the midst of this African nation's most horrific time in history. About the Author:
Mary M. Hale, RNC, MSN, SRN, SCM, has been a Nurse-Midwife for 35 years. Ten of those years she served under the Ministry of Health in Uganda, East Africa where she set up the first post-graduate pediatric nursing program. Hale has written about these experiences in her first book On Uganda's Terms telling the obstacles to saving lives under the worst of circumstances while working tirelessly against the odds of Idi Amin.
She retired after 27 years in Pediatrics and Obstetrics at Albert Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006. Her first year of retirement was spent writing her autobiography On Uganda's Terms. In her second year she finished Beyond Nurses Notes - A Journey to Choose Life.
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A Most Compelling Story of Nursing Bravery January 14, 2009
Bonnie Kaye (Philadelphia, PA)
On Uganda's Terms written by American nurse Mary Hale is the most compelling story of one woman's bravery during the horrific time in Uganda's history. Under the leadership of the dictator Idi Amin, Hale talks about her life threatening experiences while training local residents to be nurses in her efforts to change the quality of life for women and children in a country where children were dying more than living. The book gives an excellent perspective of the day to day dangers and obstacles faced by those nurses who dedicated their lives to set up a medical facility with only primative supplies and medication. Hale's story will make you smile and make you cry. She tells about the tragedy her nurses witnessed after the raid on Entebbe and the burning of one of the Jewish prisoners taken from the hijacked airplane. Hale spent a decade in Uganda trying to make a difference under adverse conditions. Anyone who is interested in the true spirit of nursing and humanism needs to read this book. This book shows nursing at its absolute best. Mary Hale will be a heroine to anyone who learns her story. The book also includes pictures of her staff and patients in Uganda.
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