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Sunday 18 June 2023
Point Blank to Museveni’s Neo-liberal Pundit: Go get treated in Uganda, NUP activists attack sick Amama Mbabazi in London: Mpuuga tours expose the rot in government hospitals and schools
Go get treated in Uganda, NUP activists attack sick Amama Mbabazi in London
Pro-National Unity Platform (NUP) activists stormed the hotel of the
former Premier Amama Mbabazi in Central London, hurling insults at him
and demanding that he returns home to Uganda and get treatment there.
The handful of the activists, equipped with speakers, and fags
heckled Mbabazi who was being exited from the hotel in a Range Rover
vehicle.
“Shame on you, Shame on you, go back to Uganda, why are you having treatment here?” the shouted.
Meanwhile, Mbabazi kept waiting in the car while his wife took
pictures of the protesters. The vehicle later exited the premises while
Mbabazi waved to the protesters.
Mbabazi has been in London for the last couple of weeks where he went to seek medical treatment for a back ailment.
He said he is recovering well and has started heavy diplomatic work.
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Last week,
Prime Minister Robinah Nabban- ja came out strongly against Leader of
the Opposition in Parliament (LOP) Mathias Mpuuga’s oversight tours in
the countryside.
She was particularly unhappy with
Mpuuga’s June 9 visit to Kawolo hospital in Buikwe district, which ended
with the health workers there announcing a sit-down strike over unpaid
salaries.
Kawolo was
the seventh health facility the Mpuuga-led opposition MPs were visiting
in as many days since the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP embarked on a countrywide
tour to ostensibly evaluate the projects on which taxpayers’ money is
spent.
From Nakaseke to Luweero, Buvuma,
Kayunga, Mukono, and Wakiso districts, Mpuuga unearthed the deplorable
state of Uganda’s healthcare services, with some hospitals running at
miserable staffing levels and lack of basic equipment, among others.
For
instance, the Entebbe regional referral hospital director, Dr Peterson
Steven Kyebambe, reported “an acute staff shortage,” having only 16 per
cent of its approved staffing structure filled.
“We were given a supplementary of Shs
406 million this [financial] quarter so that we can get some staff
recruited in this hospital. But before we could go through with it, the
Public Service ministry halted it until the headcount was done. We are
now afraid that this money will go back unutilized, yet we are badly in
need of staff,” Dr Kyebambe said.
The revelations shocked the MPs, especially given that the hospital is a stone’s throw from State House.
“At 16 per cent, it is almost criminal
to speak about it. We can also say you do not have any staff. You are
way below the WHO [World Health Organisation] threshold,” Mpuuga said.
Having housed the national Cov- id-19
isolation unit, Dr Kyebambe said the hospital ended up losing furniture
and other equipment due to overspray of antiseptics and other
disinfectants. To make up for the losses, the hospital wants an
additional allocation of at least Shs 2 billion to repair and replace
the damaged furniture.
Most shocking for the MPs was that
Entebbe Grade A hospital, which is the referral for all cases from the
neighbouring State House and Entebbe International Airport, is operating
in buildings that have been condemned as un- fit for human habitation.
“It is embarrassing; some of the
buildings at Grade A are almost 118 years old. They need to be razed
down, and we are building a new complex,” Kyebambe said.
Despite being the first point of
reference for State House and Entebbe International Airport, the MPs
also heard that the hospital lacks critical medical equipment across key
departments.
This is unlike Kawolo hospital, which
underwent major repairs and expansion courtesy of the UPDF engineering
brigade. But like the other hospitals, Kawolo too is grappling with drug
stockouts. For four months, Dr Joshua Kiberu, the hospital’s medical
superintendent, told the MPs, healthcare workers have only been writing
prescriptions for the patients and advising them to look for medicines
from nearby pharmacies.
Mathias Mpuuga at Kawolo hospital
“Cycle 6 [of the medical supplies] was
supposed to be delivered by May 30, but as we talk now, we have only
received four cycles. By next week, we will be getting delivery of the
first cycle for the year 2023-age of 30 deliveries are handled every
day, but the maternity ward has only six beds, so the mothers have to
take turns using the beds. Mpuuga questioned why the ministry of Health
allowed the establishment of a private wing despite the facility having a
single maternity ward.
“It is criminal for a regime of almost
40 years to allow mothers and babies to die during birth. All of us must
get concerned,” Mpuuga said. The facility has only two incubators,
which are used interchangeably, but sometimes puts two babies in an
incubator.
Records at the health facility indicate
that a total of 800 mothers are delivered from the facility annually,
out of which 250 undergo caesarean sections and four succumb to
postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).
According to Dr Kasirye, the high
occurrence of stillbirths is mainly caused by untreated infections in
mothers, bleeding, and malaria. Meanwhile, the health facility lacks an
X-ray and has only two scans, of which one is non-functioning.
The LOP described the situation at
Mukono general hospital as the entire demise and neglect of healthcare
providers in the country. Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze
criticised the hospital administration for painting a rosy picture of
the state of affairs at the facility, especially regarding stillbirths.
Nambooze also wondered why the facility
is tight-lipped about the challenges of the hospital, yet it is the
responsibility of the government to effectively equip health facilities.
