Hospitals get 22 ambulances
Dec 29, 2008
THE Government with support from the African Development Bank has given 22 ambulances worth sh94m each to hospitals and health centres in southwestern Uganda.
By Abdulkarim Ssengendo
THE Government with support from the African Development Bank has given 22 ambulances worth sh94m each to hospitals and health centres in southwestern Uganda.
The beneficiaries were five public hospitals that included Mbarara, Kabale, Kitagata, Itojo and Kambuga and four private non-profit making hospitals Ibanda, Kisiizi, Nyakibale and Rushere.
A total of 13 health centre IVs that included Ishongorero, Kiruhura, Nyamuyanja, Rwekubo, Bugamba, Kinoni, Rwashamaire, Kebisoni, Buhunga, Hamurwa, Kihihi, Shuuku and Kyabugimbi, each received an ambulance.
The vehicles were handed over by the state minister for health, Dr. Richard Nduhura, to political leaders from the region at Mbarara University of Science and Technology on Tuesday.
Nduhura said Mutolere Hospital in Kisoro and Ishaka Hospital in Bushenyi would each receive an ambulance early next year.
He pointed out that the health of the people was a primary concern of the Government, saying a population that is not healthy cannot contribute to creating wealth.
Nduhura urged political and administrative leaders of the beneficiary districts to guard against misuse of the ambulances.
He added that the Government intends to upgrade Mbarara Hospital to a national referral hospital.
The Mbarara district LC5 chairman, Wilberforce Yaguma, said a lot needed to be done to ensure that health centre IIIs and IIs get doctors to reduce the burden in hospitals.
THE Government with support from the African Development Bank has given 22 ambulances worth sh94m each to hospitals and health centres in southwestern Uganda.
The beneficiaries were five public hospitals that included Mbarara, Kabale, Kitagata, Itojo and Kambuga and four private non-profit making hospitals Ibanda, Kisiizi, Nyakibale and Rushere.
A total of 13 health centre IVs that included Ishongorero, Kiruhura, Nyamuyanja, Rwekubo, Bugamba, Kinoni, Rwashamaire, Kebisoni, Buhunga, Hamurwa, Kihihi, Shuuku and Kyabugimbi, each received an ambulance.
The vehicles were handed over by the state minister for health, Dr. Richard Nduhura, to political leaders from the region at Mbarara University of Science and Technology on Tuesday.
Nduhura said Mutolere Hospital in Kisoro and Ishaka Hospital in Bushenyi would each receive an ambulance early next year.
He pointed out that the health of the people was a primary concern of the Government, saying a population that is not healthy cannot contribute to creating wealth.
Nduhura urged political and administrative leaders of the beneficiary districts to guard against misuse of the ambulances.
He added that the Government intends to upgrade Mbarara Hospital to a national referral hospital.
The Mbarara district LC5 chairman, Wilberforce Yaguma, said a lot needed to be done to ensure that health centre IIIs and IIs get doctors to reduce the burden in hospitals.