ALL referral hospitals including Sekouture in Mwanza will soon be supplied with medical supplies and equipment including X-Ray machines and CT-Scans, Members of Parliament (MPs) were assured here.
The Minister for Health, Community
Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms Ummy Mwalimu, said her
ministry has received 2.8bn/- that was meant for seminars for ministers,
which will now be spent on supplying the hospitals with the much needed
health equipment.
Ms Mwalimu was responding to a
supplementary question from Kemirembe Lwota, (Special Seats – CCM), who
wanted to know when the government will supply Sekouture Hospital with
an X-Ray and a CT-Scan.
The minister of health said the
government is conducting a project with Orion of purchasing medical
equipment and installing them in all referral hospitals in the country,
which also includes the Sekouture Hospital located in Mwanza Region.
She insisted that the government
acknowledges challenges faced by the public in the region who are forced
to seek the services in private hospitals, but promised that the
exercise will be done before the end of this financial year.
Earlier, responding to the same basic
question, the Deputy Minister of State, President’s Office (Regional
Administration and Local Government), Mr Suleiman Jaffo, said Sekouture
Hospital has two X-Ray machines purchased by the government in 2002. He
said the two X-Ray machines are in working conditions, but also noted
that the machines keep breaking and receiving frequent repairs due to
age.
The deputy minister concurred that the
hospital does not have a CT-Scan machine and those seeking the service
of the machine must get it at Bungando Referral Hospital.
“The government through the ministry of
Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, has started
a project to instal medical equipment including CT-Scan machines, in
all regional referral hospitals countrywide,” he explained.
He said the project is being implemented
in collaboration with the government of Netherland and once completed
will help equip regional hospitals with the important health equipment,
to help in-depth health investigations of patients
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