Joy As Mityana Hospital Receives Drugs After Three Months Of Waiting.

Joy engulfed residents of Mityana District as their general hospital received a consignment of medical supplies after three months of waiting in vain. The hospital last received medical supplies in December last year.

The delivery of the medicine came after an intervention by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, who paid a courtesy visit at the hospital on February 25 and pledged to help the hospital get medical supplies.

Witnessing the conveyance at Mityana General Hospital on March first, Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba Mityana on March first pledged on behalf of the government that they will ensure there is enough medicine in the hospital.

“We are grateful that the promise by the Prime Minister has been delivered by the National Medical Stores (NMS). I am reliably informed that enough medicines have been sent here and are likely to take them for three months,”Nabakooba said.
She encouraged patients to make use of the availed medical supplies to seek treatment and cautioned medical workers to be accountable and use the medicines properly as expected from the community and their government.

Dr. Emmanuel Zirabamuzaale, the senior hospital administrator, thanked the government for fulfilling the pledge of sending them medicine, saying they were lacking even the basic medical equipment such as gloves.

“We thank the government for having listened to our outcry and sent us the third cycle. We hope they are two in one. We did not have any commodities in the hospital and patients were basically buying everything that they needed in the treatment process,” Dr Zirabamuzaale said.

The hospital administrator called upon all patients who had earlier visited the hospital when there were no drugs to come back and receive treatment.“Now with the delivery of this cycle, patients are going to be able to receive free treatment.”

On February 25, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja visited Mityana General Hospital and listened to the different outcries from the patients and hospital workers over constraints that hindered good health services in this hospital yet the patients’ influx had continued to siege day by day.

This was after she received a phone call from Mr Moses Ssekiziyivu, a husband to Harriet Ninsiima, who had a caesarian to save her twins and unfortunately after operation she developed some complications.

On her visit, the Premier realised the hospital was operating with no medical supplies and people’s lives were at risk since it is the fourth ranked hospital in admitting the biggest number of patients in Uganda.

This forced the hospital management to ask patients for some money to be able to buy the required items needed in treating them.

On leaving, the prime minister promised the hospital management that she was going to order National Medical Stores (NMS) to send medical items by Saturday this week which she fulfilled.