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Miss Tourism overwhelmed by stench and congestion in Rakai Hospital
Rakai Hospital senior administrator Joseph Kateregga (C) takes Miss Tourism 2015 Patricia Babirye (2ndR) and other beauty queens around the children's ward at the hospital on Monday. PHOTO BY ALI MAMBULE
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Complaint. The hospital administrator says various appeals to rectify the problems faced by the health facility have been made to both Rakai District administration and the central government, but no redress has been made
When she entered the children's ward at Rakai Hospital on Monday, Miss Tourism 2015 Patricia Babirye was overwhelmed by the stench and congestion which filled the place.
Ms Babirye, however, discovered that the situation which scared her sometimes shoots much higher than what she was seeing.
Two boys were lying on a mattress on the floor. Each bed was shared by two or three children with different sicknesses.
Close to the two boys lying on the floor with fever was another boy discharging his excreta into a basin.
"This is shocking. My office as Miss Tourism can't do anything to change this situation, but since I was born in this district which the Minister of Tourism, Ms Maria Mutagamba, also represents in Parliament, I believe we can work hand-in- hand and organise a fundraising to at least do some expansion to the children's ward," she said.
However, Ms Babirye was yet to learn more of the hospital's woes from Mr Joseph Kateregga, the senior hospital administrator, who led her and her team of other beauty queens in cleaning the hospital premises.
"We lose at least three women and four children every month due to power blackouts," Mr Kateregga told the team.
He said because of the erratic power supply at the hospital, pregnant mothers undergoing surgical operations often die together with their unborn babies because there is no standby generator to promptly switch on the life saving machines.
He said various appeals have been made by the hospital authorities to both Rakai district administration and the central government, but no redress has been made.
Hygiene at the facility is also pathetic, exposing the lives of patients to more dangers. Patients in the nine wards share four toilets which are always engaged.
"The appropriate number would be at least a toilet for each ward, but currently we have four that serve the whole hospital which receives close to 300 out- patients every day," Mr Kateregga said.
He said whereas the hospital employs some menial workers to clean the toilets and compound daily, by midday the toilets are already soiled due to the high frequency of using them.
Asked why the hospital did not construct toilets using the funding received from government, Mr Kateregga said Shs25m is too little to cater for allowances, water and electricity bills and also do other developments.
Shortage of doctors is another challenge facing the hospital, which Mr Kateregga said might not be solved soon.
Like other health centres and hospitals up-country, Rakai Hospital has received many doctors, but they abandon their duty station soon after reporting.
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