The Conception and then the beginning of PCS in the UCMB setting goes back to July 2007. Just before the above mentioned date, I Fr. Festo A. Adrabo was working at Mulago hospital as a chaplain for the Catholic community of the hospital setting.
Job description; Ensure pastoral care for the sick in our Catholic Health Institutions here in Uganda. In practice: I train pastoral care givers for the Catholic health institutions through the CPE methodology. CPE is: “A professional education for ministry which brings together theological students, ordained clergy, members of religious orders and qualified lay persons into supervised encounter with living human documents in order to develop pastoral identity, interpersonal competence , spirituality, the skills of pastoral assessment, professional collaboration, group leadership, pastoral care and counseling and pastoral theological reflection.” The methodology applied is: (Action – reflection- action)