{UAH} PATIENTS DESERT MOROTO HOSPITAL OVER UNCOLLECTED DEAD BODIES.

Patients desert Moroto hospital wards over uncollected dead bodies


Patients at Moroto Regional Referral Hospital have deserted wards over
management's failure to collect bodies of dead patients.

Most of the patients have sought shelter under trees outside the
hospital building.
Some of the patients who had discharged themselves and those who
preferred sleeping in the cold dark nights outside the hospital
building told Daily Monitor they couldn't endure the smell of the
dead.

"Enter inside that medical ward you will see a dead body still on the
bed oozing," said Sarah Nangiro one of the patients.
When Daily Monitor visited the facility, there were two bodies of dead
patients still lying on the hospital beds in the medical wards with a
foul smell.
Patrick okello, another patient admitted in one of the wards where the
deadf patient was said the dead bodies had spent there four days.
"Those people died on Wednesday at night and the relatives
disappeared. Since then nobody has bothered to take them away," he
said.

Mr. Filbert Nyeko the hospital director said they have no space to put
the dead bodies adding that the hospital mortuary was full of
unclaimed dead bodies.
"We don't have a place to keep the dead bodies because the hospital
mortuary is full of unclaimed dead bodies," he said.
He added that the Moroto municipal council that is responsible for
collecting and burial of unclaimed bodies has not responded to the
several letters that the hospital wrote to them.
Last week, the hospital stopped carrying out postmortem on accident
victims on grounds that there was not enough space in the hospital
mortuary where a doctor would stand and perform the exercise on dead
bodies.

Mr. Noah Ewaru the Mayor of Moroto Municipality said they are working
around the clock to collect and bury the bodies.
"As u know am just one week old since I was sworn in. I am just trying
to streamline things here,"he said.
In October last year, government completed the construction of the
Shs25b building at the hospital with the capaicity to accommodate more
than 500 patients.
While handing over the building to the hospital management, Mr Richard
Mugulusi, the arch design project manager, said the structure has 10
departments, including an outpatient section, emergency wards for
causalities and recovery.

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