NovaCare started in Mbarara to fix a big problem in our healthcare system. For a long time, families and individuals have gone through a confusing and broken medical journey. Because our regional referral hospital is overcrowded and overwhelmed, basic healthcare in many clinics has become rushed. Doctors often don’t have enough time for you.
Worse still, the system usually waits for you to get heavily sick before treating you. We wanted to change that. NovaCare was set up to switch the focus from just treating advanced sickness to providing smooth, continuous, and preventive care.
Screened over 500 people for diabetes through health outreaches at no cost
Offered free screening to about 300 university students for STIs such as HIV & Syphillis.
Supported 6 medical camps in conjunction with St. Luke's Chapel MUST, Lions Club of Mbarara & Corpus Christi Catholic Chaplaincy of MUST
Dedicated Online Health education channels; WhatsApp, TikTok
Your medical care shouldn’t feel like a confusing puzzle where you have to look for your own answers. When care is scattered, patients get lost and neglected. At NovaCare, we bring everything together. Your health tracking, laboratory tests, and doctor consultations are all kept in one secure, well-organized system so we can walk with you through the whole journey.
Many clinics give patients laboratory results full of difficult medical codes and numbers without explaining what they mean. We believe you cannot take care of your body if you do not understand what is happening to it. We take complicated laboratory markers and translate them into simple, everyday language. For example, instead of just handing you raw figures, our clinicians sit down with you and explain exactly what those numbers mean for your daily health.
The main goal of medicine should not be fighting a huge medical crisis; it should be stopping that crisis from happening in the first place. Through our routine health checkups and community wellness programs, we look for the very first warning signs of blood pressure, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses long before you even feel sick or weak.
Mbarara is full of bright university students, but many face a hard time when they get sick. Because of tight budgets and poor conditions in some small private clinics, students often end up receiving very low-quality healthcare. We believe that a student’s mind should be focused on their education and their future, not on the fear of expensive medical bills.
