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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Health workers at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital have asked the government to build more infrastructure and recruit more specialists to address service delivery gaps.<\/p>\n

Dr Alex Adaku, the hospital director, said there is a need to expand infrastructure with an urgent need for emergency and accident units.<\/p>\n

He said the current wards have a five-bed capacity and at times they improvise with tents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rate of accidents in this region is very high. Last year, we had two major accidents but we had to manage patients in uncomfortable circumstances,\u201d Dr Adaku said.<\/p>\n

He also called for the expansion of the current maternity ward and surgical ward complex.<\/p>\n

Dr Adaku decried the lack of specialised medicine at the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost specialised medicines are not on the essential medicines list and the most affected department is orthopaedics implants and supplies for orthopaedics technology,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Tom Rubaare, the chairperson of the hospital board, said most structures at the facility are old such as the main theatre and the surgical ward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government needs to allocate more funds to build new storied structures to be able to accommodate most of the wards. We have a new CT scan that has been installed in a small room which is near the maternity ward and because of radiation, it can affect pregnant mothers. We need a bigger isolation ward for epidemics outbreaks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Ms Margaret Muhanga, commissioned a cold room at the facility for storage of essential drugs for the Rwenzori region.<\/p>\n

Ms Muhanga said all challenges the facility was facing would be documented and submitted to the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

Dr Adaku said because of the poor referral system, the facility has continued to experience drug stock-outs because most patients are not referred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe receive 32o patients in our outpatient care on a daily basis and we have a bed capacity of 351 but we are congested and most of the wards have not been expanded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The facility bed occupancy rate is 72 percent while the average stay in the facility is four days and the hospital mortality rate is 3.5 percent reducing from 5 percent in the past years.<\/p>\n

The hospital was elevated from a district hospital to regional referral in 1996.<\/p>\n

Dr Adaku said the current staffing level stands at 72 percent while that of specialists is at 9 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have specialists in areas of surgery, paediatrics, gynaecology, mental health, ear, nose and throat (ENT), but we need more specialists to cover other areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Adaku said the facility lacks specialists in radiology who can run the CT scan which has been installed at the facility but is not yet functional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need an estigeologist, pathologist, public care specialist, when such are recruited, it will enable the facility to concentrate to handle specialised cases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Reuben Kyomukama, a surgeon attached to the facility, told this publication last year in December that a patient who had collapsed was referred to Mulago Hospital.<\/p>\n

He said their facility has no personnel to treat the victim since the bronchoscope machine is based at Mulago.<\/p>\n

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