Pallisa Hospital Needs Rehabilitation

Feb 27, 2001

THE Pallisa district director of health services, Dr. Andrew Namonyo, has said Pallisa Hospital, the only one in the district is aging and lacks maternity equipment like delivery beds and incubators for prematurely born babies.

By Jonathan Angura THE Pallisa district director of health services, Dr. Andrew Namonyo, has said Pallisa Hospital, the only one in the district is aging and lacks maternity equipment like delivery beds and incubators for prematurely born babies. Namonyo was presenting a paper at a two-day district budget conference on Thursday in Pal and Lisa Secondary School hall in Pallisa. He said the hospital requires major rehabilitation of its physical infrastructure, water system and replacement of X-ray machines and a theatre table. Namonyo said the poor state of the hospital was one of the constraints his department faces in the delivery of health services in the district. He said the hospital required ultra sound equipment and computers for date management on top of replacing other old medical equipment. Namonyo said other constraints that hindered effective health service delivery include inadequate trained staff, occurrence of epidemics which divert funds and efforts of planned activities and inadequate funding of the programmes. He decried low levels of education which inhibits perceiving health messages. Ends

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