Tororo Hospital has posh new buildings without doctors!
Oct 07, 2010
EDITOR: Judging by the buildings, Tororo Hospital would qualify as a modern hospital. Alas! This is not the case. The hospital recently got a facelift through the assistance of Japan.
EDITOR: Judging by the buildings, Tororo Hospital would qualify as a modern hospital. Alas! This is not the case. The hospital recently got a facelift through the assistance of Japan.
The ancient buildings believed to have served as war mortuaries of the Second World War were razed and new ones replaced them.
The hospital now has modern theatres both for pure surgical cases and a modern labour suite. A modern out-patients department with well-labelled departments meets your eyes as you enter the hospital. There is also a modern laboratory building although it is not so well equipped. The hospital has a modern X-ray department. There are many other modern features. Now one would love to stop there.
Department by department, the story becomes grim. In the theatres there is no surgeon of any description! There is no paediatrician in the children's ward. There is no obstetrician or gynaecologist in the women's ward while there is no radiologist to man the X-ray!
The hospital only has a medical superintendent. Since there are no doctors at Tororo, he superintends over buildings! Tororo Hospital is home to about six research centres. All these researchers come and go potentially increasing work for Tororo Hospital. For example, the Home Based AIDS care under CDC introduced ARVs to 1,200 clients and finally wound up the study.
These patients on HIV drugs were finally transferred to TASO. This is transfer of chronic illness to a support centre which should have been a hospital! This leaves out Tororo Hospital and yet these studies are collaborative with powerful universities and institutions abroad.
Tororo Hospital should not only have buildings and centres for studies but its human resource base needs strengthening as to be on equal setting with the researches going on in its compound.
It is ironical that drug complications from the researches cannot be handled by the hospital. Research is for medical benefit but Tororo Hospital is in an unfortunate situation.
William Mugeni
wmungadi@yahoo.com
The ancient buildings believed to have served as war mortuaries of the Second World War were razed and new ones replaced them.
The hospital now has modern theatres both for pure surgical cases and a modern labour suite. A modern out-patients department with well-labelled departments meets your eyes as you enter the hospital. There is also a modern laboratory building although it is not so well equipped. The hospital has a modern X-ray department. There are many other modern features. Now one would love to stop there.
Department by department, the story becomes grim. In the theatres there is no surgeon of any description! There is no paediatrician in the children's ward. There is no obstetrician or gynaecologist in the women's ward while there is no radiologist to man the X-ray!
The hospital only has a medical superintendent. Since there are no doctors at Tororo, he superintends over buildings! Tororo Hospital is home to about six research centres. All these researchers come and go potentially increasing work for Tororo Hospital. For example, the Home Based AIDS care under CDC introduced ARVs to 1,200 clients and finally wound up the study.
These patients on HIV drugs were finally transferred to TASO. This is transfer of chronic illness to a support centre which should have been a hospital! This leaves out Tororo Hospital and yet these studies are collaborative with powerful universities and institutions abroad.
Tororo Hospital should not only have buildings and centres for studies but its human resource base needs strengthening as to be on equal setting with the researches going on in its compound.
It is ironical that drug complications from the researches cannot be handled by the hospital. Research is for medical benefit but Tororo Hospital is in an unfortunate situation.
William Mugeni
wmungadi@yahoo.com