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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Patients seeking X-ray services at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital now have a reason to smile after the facility secured two new machines.<\/p>\n

X-ray services at the facility were suspended in August 2018 after the only machine broke down.<\/p>\n

One of the new X-ray machines was donated by the government whereas another was obtained through a partnership between the hospital and the Korean Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH).<\/p>\n

Mr Charles Tumushime, the Masaka Regional Referral Hospital principal administrator, said they have already installed both machines and are only waiting for clearance from the Uganda Atomic Energy Council (AEC-Uganda).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people have been struggling to access X-ray services in the last four years, luckily enough, we got new machines in December 2022; which have been fully-installed and only await a licence from the Atomic Energy Council to start operating,\u201d he said during an interview at the weekend.<\/p>\n

ACE-Uganda is a body mandated to regulate a peaceful and safe application of ionising radiation, protection and safety of radioactive sources.<\/p>\n

Mr David Kasadha, a senior radiographer at the hospital, said some inspectors from AEC recently visited the facility and gave some recommendations before the machines are put to use.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019The inspectors advised us to have windows and doors coated with lead in order to control emission of radioactive rays in the environment, we are now working on this and I am optimistic that by next week [this week] the work will be complete ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the last four years, patients seeking X-ray services at the facility have been referred to private health units in Masaka City.<\/p>\n

The installation of new X-ray machines comes at a time when the facility had just secured a brand new Computerised Tomography (CT) scan machine, the first of its kind since the establishment of the hospital in 1927.<\/p>\n

Records at Masaka Hospital indicate that the facility receives more than 80 patients on a daily basis that require x-ray services. The hospital\u2019s average daily contact with patients is about 2,000.<\/p>\n

By time the X-ray services were suspended, the AEC-Uganda had already warned the hospital management against operating the unit in disregard of safety precautions. There was reported leakage of radiation, which exposed the officer to cancer infections.<\/p>\n

Some of the effects of radiation, according to medical experts include; burns, nausea, loss of hair, vomiting and even death in extreme cases, depending on the quantity of dosage one is exposed to.<\/p>\n

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