Luweero District Health Officer Doctor Innocent Nkonwa is optimistic that the elevation of the facility and its actual operationalization will help to improve service delivery. Nkonwa adds that currently, the health facility needs to streamline the roles of the available staff to meet the staffing norms of a hospital.
A maternity ward at Awal-wal Health Centre II in Soroti district has remained closed more than a year after its construction. Located in Gweri Sub County, the facility built at the cost of 85 million Shillings in the 2015/2016 financial year has remained non-operational due to substandard construction work. Both the community and local council authority rejected its commissioning in 2016 after realising the facility was built without a placenta disposal pit, drainage lines, bathrooms, attendants kitchen and shelter.
Residents in Mayuge district have said that the high poverty levels in the area have hindered their efforts to maintain proper sanitation leading to frequent diseases. Amina Nakyenda told URN that being a widow, she cannot afford basic sanitation practices such as brushing teeth thrice a day.
Medical forms seen by URN indicate that the prisoner known as Byamugisha Ronald, from Mubende district was taken to Jinja hospital by Kirinya prison warders for treatment after suffering from pelvic ulcers and malaria.
A health worker at Nakifuma Health Centre III in Mukono district is in the spotlight for reportedly forging a medical report on a boda boda accident victim. Sarah Namakula allegedly made the medical report to police without ever examining the victim, Nsubuga Amiru Mitanda, who suffered a double fracture in his right leg.
Gerald Musinguzi, the Ntoroko District Health Educator says PHC activities remain inactive due to inadequate funds provided for the programme. Musinguzi explains that only 450 million Shillings is allocated to PHC every financial year. He adds that the funds are used to purchase medical equipment and clear utility bills for health centers.
Enock Kusasira, the spokesperson Mulago National Referral Hospital, says they intend to move patients to Kawempe and Kiruddu hospitals in February next year as they enter in their second phase of the renovation works.
Sam Sserunjogi, the Katikamu Sub county LC 3 chairperson says it is disturbing for the Health Ministry to cut down on the funding for health centers yet they have advocating for more money for a very long time.
Dr. Okullo says they will first issue the tool in Kampala since the city has more drug shops, clinics and hospitals before they roll it out to the entire country.
Up to 150 Insecticide treated mosquito nets were sent to Alado Health Center II for distribution to expectant mothers in December 2014. The nets were distributed as part of government effort to fight mosquitoes, the major cause of Malaria, a number one killer disease in the country.
Fausta Tushabe, a midwife at Lyantonde hospital, said that the water crisis has greatly affected the maternity ward where most of the work depends on water. She said that they have been forced to reduce on the number of the times the ward is cleaned in an effort to utilize the little water available.
