{UAH} Gook} Patients pull bodies to Mulago ward corridors

Gook,

This is sad, very sad! It looks like the healthcare system in Uganda has totally gone to the dogs. Yes, the private hospitals are helping out a little bit,but there are mainly located in the central and the doctors there are as corrupt as a bacteria on an onion. I can give you an example; My son fell sick while in Uganda a couple of weeks ago and was taken to a presumably an expensive private hospital somewhere on Entebbe road. They asked us if we wanna see either a specialist or physician. To see a specialist, you are charged shs.30,000 as consultancy fee, but this so called specialist only speaks to you without examining the patient. Then again,you pay examination fee separately.

And as the specialist was explaining to us what the problem might be, he suggested that we do an X-ray, a normal malaria test and an RDT. We wondered what was the purpose of doing both a normal malaria test and an RDT at the same time? In any case, the RDT is more detailed and explains what's missed out in the normal malaria test? So, we suggested that an RDT would be enough for us, and he was smilingly ok with it.

Basically, private clinics charge astronomical costs to people by asking them to do tests they sometimes don't need, and there seem to be nobody to regulate them.

Some doctors are just incompetent. I think some people weren't meant to be doctors in the first place. No wonder Museveni skies to Germany every now and then, but we turn around and blame him. A friend of mine developed toothache while in Uganda last year. He went to the clinic and he was prescribed seven types of antibiotics. He took them all till when they got finished but the pain couldn't go away. So, he went back to the doctors for an explanation. They then told him that his tooth had to be forked out if the antibiotics weren't working. He humbly declined because he was remaining with only two days to get back to UK. As soon he arrived here, he made an appointment with the dentist who prescribed him only one type of antibiotics with paracetamol, and the pain disappeared like a flush! With him, his trust with Ugandan doctors ended last year, and I guess he wouldn't behave any differently from Museveni if he were to become the next president.

The truth is that a lot of things have gone wrong in our country but healthcare shouldn't have been neglected to that extent. I was gobsmacked after watching the video of Bugiri hospital in Busoga with bats singing in it, and the state of Kayunga hospital is just appalling. I just can't believe that we have reached this level of irresponsibility, insanity, carelessness,..............it's beyond anybody's understanding why Museveni has intentionally decided to fall with Uganda's healthcare. I just can't understand it, can you ? Surprisingly, he is asking for another term, and the most painful bit of it is that he is gonna get it! Yes, he is gonna "win" as many elections as he wishes till when he joins his creator.

Kiibi nyo ddala munange!

Abbey

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On 18 May 2014, at 16:53, "'joseph ochieno' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community" <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

NRA Uganda. Kateregga claps, and from Malaba to Katuna, Arua to Mutula, they shout 'mbu no change'. 

Ugandans, believe in better.

Ochieno

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On Monday, 19 May 2014, 0:44, Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com> wrote:

And they have the audacity to challenge recent survey on Uganda doctors....!

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:33 PM, eun Nyaronyango <nyaronyango@hotmail.com> wrote:

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Patients-pull-bodies-to-Mulago-ward-corridors/-/688334/2319586/-/13hvap4/-/index.html

Patients pull bodies to Mulago ward corridors

By Farahani Mukisa

Posted  Monday, May 19   2014 at  01:00

In Summary

Careless. The bodies had been left in the wards for several days.

Kampala.
Tuberculosis patients at Mulago hospital last Saturday paraded three bodies in the hospital corridors, demonstrating over the staff's failure to collect corpses from their ward for days.
The patients alleged that when people die, their bodies lie in the ward with other patients for at least 24 hours before they are collected creating a heavy stench in the ward.

"Today [Saturday] four people have died and their bodies spent the whole day within the ward," said Mr Sam Biyinzika, a patient in the ward.
Patients interviewed separately, said at the weekend, a few doctors and nurses are at work. "On weekends, caretakers end up being the doctors because one or two doctors pass around. The nurses come late and leave at will," said Joseph Luyiga, another patient.

No doctors on duty
"From 8pm till morning, you rarely receive doctors' attention. All wards are always filled with cleaning staff. I last saw a doctor in the ward at 9am, now it is 7pm no doctor has seen my patient," said another person.
"We are like hospital prisoners, the ward is stinking, I can't move off my bed all I can do is to endure the environment," said Mr Biyinzika. "Now I am a mortuary curator, a patient and a cleaner, who has helped to wrap the corpses you see lined in the corridors."

Mr Enock Kusasira, the Mulago hospital spokesperson, said he had talked to officials in charge of the ward and hopes the situation will get to normal. "As far as I know, officials at the affected ward have handled the situation because I had talked to them and it is the body of one person who died that day that hadn't been collected," he said in a telephone interview yesterday.
However, this newspaper understands that Mulago hospital has for years been grappling with staff short

fmukisa@ug.nationmedia.com

 

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