Kitovu commissions new women’s ward

Apr 04, 2005

KITOVU Hospital on Saturday commissioned a 40-bed for women.

By Eddie Ssejjoba

KITOVU Hospital on Saturday commissioned a 40-bed for women.

Sister Cabrin Namusisi said the ward was a major step towards liberating women and restoring their dignity and rights.

The Vesico Vagina Fistula Repair ward will work on women with complications during labour.

President Yoweri Museveni in a speech read by the second deputy premier, Henry Muganwa Kajura, hailed the late Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka’s vision for inviting the Medical Missionaries of Mary from Ireland who founded the hospital.

The hospital also marked 50 years.
The function began with a mass led by the Papal Nuncio, Christopher Pierre, assisted by bishops John Baptist Kaggwa and Adrian Ddungu.
Present was the Irish Ambassador, Mairtin O’Fainin.

Museveni said the Government targeted intensifying preventive health care and bringing services nearer to the people.
He, however, said many people relied on superstition and witchcraft instead of seeking treatment from hospitals.

Museveni said many people, especially the illiterate, relied on self-medication which he said was dangerous to their health.

He urged the the hospital administration to ensure accountability in all sectors.
Museveni commended them for their plan to expand the accident and emergency ward.

Namusisi asked the Government to recruit more doctors in the hospital. She also asked the Government to increase funding to hospitals.

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