Soroti Regional Referral Hospital is in a state of disrepair considerably hampering its capability to offer ample medical companies.
According to Professor Mary Margaret Ajiko, a marketing consultant surgeon on the hospital, there’s want for brand spanking new infrastructure and assets.
She highlighted that because the hospital was designated a regional referral facility in 1996, no new buildings have been constructed to accommodate the rising affected person load.
“We discover that, for instance, you go to the Outpatient Department, it is vitally small and meant for a inhabitants perhaps of 500, however right here we’re seeing a inhabitants of two.7 million. It will get so crowded and it’s not simple to handle,” she defined.
Ajiko’s assertion comes on the backdrop of the go to of the Committee on Government Assurance and Implementation.
The committee’s go to follows Parliament’s approval of considerable loans in 2019 and 2021 to improve well being centres throughout the nation together with the development and equipping of latest amenities and recruitment of employees.
The committee’s ongoing oversight goals to make sure the tasks are applied successfully to enhance healthcare supply.
Ajiko added that the shortage of an accident and emergency unit is problematic.
“When sufferers are concerned in accidents and they’re introduced in, they’re taken on to the wards. The wards are so small that sufferers are sometimes on the ground,” she mentioned.
The lack of ample surgical amenities usually means surgeons are pressured to attend for hours to entry house for emergency operations.
Dr Ben Watmon, the Hospital Director mentioned that the amenities on the hospital are dilapidated past renovation. “Most of the amenities have been constructed within the Nineteen Forties and so they have outlived their usefulness however we proceed to ship service with what we’ve. We sit up for getting higher infrastructure, he mentioned.
The Chairperson of the committee, Hon. Abed Bwanika, acknowledged the extreme challenges confronted by the hospital.
” We can inform with our eyes that the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) listed here are doing good work. They are those who’re engaged on the oxygen plant. They have up to now achieved 90 per cent of the works and that’s glorious,” Bwanika mentioned.
However, he additionally burdened the pressing want for extra complete options. “Some of the amenities within the hospital are extremely dilapidated. Roofs are falling off; house isn’t sufficient. We want a brand new hospital for this area,” he mentioned including that, ’they do not have a theatre; I’ve seemed of their theatre. It is a small room. The authorities should are available in so quick to offer these crucial areas’.
Bwanika provided an assurance that they are going to advocate for instant authorities intervention to improve the hospital’s amenities.
“They have the docs, the surgeons however they do not have a theatre that may accommodate the surgical operations. We are going to speak to the federal government and see that enterprise is a precedence,” he added.
