Malinga decries poor health facilities in Jinja
Aug 29, 2006
THE Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga, has warned doctors and consults against concentrating more on their private work and spending less time at their official work in hospitals.
By Esther Mukyala
THE Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga, has warned doctors and consults against concentrating more on their private work and spending less time at their official work in hospitals. Malinga was on a working tour of Jinja referral hospital and the childrens’ Ward at Nalufenya recently.
“How can a consultant in a referral hospital decide to go away without informing the secretaries? They also have a tendency of switching of their mobile phones and when there is an emergency it is not easy to locate them. By doing that you would be stopping government work and none of us has the power to ground government machinery,†he warned. He urged health workers to abide by the professional ethics like caring for patients with love and to dress appropriately at work. Dr Benon Wanume, the Jinja Hospital medical superintendent, took the minister in and around the hospital. Malinga was displeased at the poor state of the equipment and laboratory. He appealed to local authorities to strengthen lower health units to reduce on overcrowding at the referral hospital.
Wanume said the hospital experiences increased power cuts yet the available 27KV generator was to small to serve the hospital.
Malinga is on a nation-wide familiarisation tour of all referral hospitals.
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THE Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga, has warned doctors and consults against concentrating more on their private work and spending less time at their official work in hospitals. Malinga was on a working tour of Jinja referral hospital and the childrens’ Ward at Nalufenya recently.
“How can a consultant in a referral hospital decide to go away without informing the secretaries? They also have a tendency of switching of their mobile phones and when there is an emergency it is not easy to locate them. By doing that you would be stopping government work and none of us has the power to ground government machinery,†he warned. He urged health workers to abide by the professional ethics like caring for patients with love and to dress appropriately at work. Dr Benon Wanume, the Jinja Hospital medical superintendent, took the minister in and around the hospital. Malinga was displeased at the poor state of the equipment and laboratory. He appealed to local authorities to strengthen lower health units to reduce on overcrowding at the referral hospital.
Wanume said the hospital experiences increased power cuts yet the available 27KV generator was to small to serve the hospital.
Malinga is on a nation-wide familiarisation tour of all referral hospitals.
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