Unfortunately the Trust has not had sufficient funds in recent years to continue with this Fellowship, but is proud of its creation of the project and the change that it brought about. This is a page to commemorate what it achieved.

In conjunction with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists the Trust established the Eleanor Bradley Fellowship, which provided a one-year training experience in Uganda for an obstetric and gynaecological Specialist Registrar. It iwas open to doctors at either Cardiff University or the University of Liverpool.

From 2008, for four years, the Trust was able to send a Fellow each year, whose presence at the Mulago Hospital in Kampala Uganda has made a significant difference to maternal perinatal and neonatal mortality. In the first year, a maternal death audit and a programme for training midwives were established. In the second year, a triage system for the labour ward was introduced, which

supported the development of a High Dependency Unit in the third year. The net result has been that the number of maternal deaths at the Mulago Hospital has fallen substantially over three years. And good practice spreads outward from the hospital.

The Fellowship had two-way benefits. It is also of major educational benefit for the Fellow, who encounters a range of clinical experiences outside the usual UK practice and finds that s/he has to exercise ingenuity and initiative in a way that greatly enhances his or her skills, which s/he then brings back to the UK.

The fellowship cost between £15,000 and £18,000 a year. At its crudest, this amounts to around £400 for a woman’s life. The scheme also yields other benefits: children are spared coping with the loss of their mother in an already challenging environment; a significant number of babies’ lives have been saved as a direct or indirect result of the work of the Fellows; and a number of women are living healthier and fuller lives as a result of the medical interventions at the Mulago Hospital.