President Museveni (in hat), inspects part of the land in Amuru
District, which he proposed should be given to Madhvani Group to grow
sugarcane, recently. PPU PHOTO
By EPHRAIM KASOZI
Health centre IVs receive about 12 times the
number of patients that health centre IIs and IIIs receive, a situation
that hinders effective service delivery in rural areas, health activists
have said.
Under the Uganda National Health Consumers’
Organisation (UNHCO), the activists said health centre IIs and IIIs
have no maternity wards and children wards, forcing patients to abandon
them.
“At the health centres, you find children mixed
with adults which is dangerous. They also lack essential drugs and the
source of water is the rain water harvesting system which is
dilapidated,” said Ms Prima Kazoora, an officer with the coalition for
Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS-Uganda).
Ms Kazoora was speaking at the national
dissemination of the Quantitative Service Delivery Survey and the
Citizens’ Report Card in Kampala yesterday.
Mr Aziz Agaba, the programme officer of UNHCO, said: “There is lack of privacy during consultation, examination and counselling and this abuse of patients’ rights to confidentiality could undermine service utilisation.”
Mr Aziz Agaba, the programme officer of UNHCO, said: “There is lack of privacy during consultation, examination and counselling and this abuse of patients’ rights to confidentiality could undermine service utilisation.”
Ms Rosette Mutambi, the executive director of
UNHCO, also blamed the government for not involving communities in
decision making in health matters.
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