Plans underway to allocate specialized doctors

DAILY NEWS Reporters in Dodoma

THERE is plan to allocate more specialized doctors and health officers in the country, a move aimed at ensuring equal provision of health services in hospitals in the country.

This was said by the Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children, Ms Ummy Mwalimu, insisting that the government has taken measures to make regional and district hospitals in the country have adequate specialized health officers and doctors.

“It might be an excruciating exercise to doctors who do not want to be moved but I request you MP’s to support the government in this, we would not like a situation where politicians defend any doctor once the exercise begins” she said.

The minister made the statement in response to a supplementary question by Munde Abdallah (Special Seats CCM), who wanted to know what the government was doing to end shortage of health expertise in regional hospitals.

The minister added that the redistribution plan will benefit about nine regions in the country, among them; Tabora, Singida, Geita,Rukwa, Kigoma, Katavi, Njombe, Simiyu and Shinyanga. Meanwhile, the government has reiterated its plan to ensure all referral hospitals in the country get MRI, CT-Scan and x-ray equipments.

The statement was made by the Minister of State in the President’s Office--Public Service Management and Good Governance, Angellah Kairuki in the parliament yesterday.

“The government plans to install patient monitor, pulse oxymeter and oxygen concentrator in all regional hospitals” she told the house. She was responding to a question by Special Seats MP, Munde Abdallah (CCM), who wanted to know when the government will provide Tabora regional hospitals with the important equipments.

This comes at a time when there have been complaints from patients that they hardly get the services at the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), let alone the regional referral hospitals.