The Parliament Board on Federal Government Assurances and Execution is checking out the conditions bordering the taking down of the Critical care unit (ICU) at Gulu Regional Reference Medical Facility.
Chaired by Hon. Abed Bwanika, the board is scrutinising federal government dedications in the health and wellness field and growths in brand-new cities and areas.
In 2019, Parliament authorized a financing demand, allowing the Federal government to obtain around Shs200 billion from the International Growth Organization (IDA) of the Globe Financial Institution Team under the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (UgIFT) Program.
The financing was planned for updating health and wellness centre II’s to health and wellness centre III’s in below areas doing not have government-owned health and wellness centre III centers.
In 2021, an additional car loan demand of Shs352.2 billion from the IDA was authorized by Parliament to finish the upgrades, construct and outfit brand-new health and wellness centre III’s, and hire personnel for all updated health and wellness centre II’s, to name a few goals. Federal government additionally acquired ICU for all local reference healthcare facilities.
Throughout the board’s see to Gulu Regional Reference Medical Facility on Friday, 29 June 2024, it was uncovered that regardless of obtaining 10 ICU beds, just 4 were functional as an ICU.
Elements such as screens, ventilators, and ICU beds had actually been transferred to various other healthcare facility locations, drastically endangering the ICU’s capability. In addition, 2 ICU beds ran out solution.
The board’s replacement chairperson, Hon. Joyce Bagala, shared issue over the insufficient ICU devices offered to the board, keeping in mind disparities in the tools provided by the Japan International Collaboration Firm and the Federal Government.
AUDIO: Hon. Joyce Bagala and Hon. Abed Bwanika
Hon. Bwanika required descriptions from the healthcare facility management concerning the location of the ICU parts and the factors behind their taking down.
” It is regrettable that pricey ICU tools has actually been spread within the healthcare facility, providing the ICU inefficient, the people liable show up incapable to represent these things, several of which were repurposed as basic healthcare facility beds,” Bwanika stated.
Records suggested that elderly healthcare facility administration had actually chosen to rearrange some ICU parts to different wards, consisting of maternal, medical, and emergency situation devices after completion of COVID-19.
An ICU system usually consists of an ICU bed, ventilators, medication pumps, oxygen supply, and sucking makers. Nonetheless, a number of ICUs at the healthcare facility were discovered doing not have these vital parts.
In action to the scenario, the healthcare facility’s proprietor, Robert Vupale, was accompanied to the police headquarters to tape a declaration on the taking down of the ICU and the absent tools.
Hon. Robert Ssekitoleeko (NUP, Bamunanika Area, Luweero) suggested holding the whole healthcare facility management answerable for the ICU’s destruction.
” The duty for this concern exists with all included events, consisting of the supervisor and technological personnel taking care of the ICU. An extensive examination ought to be performed to attend to the malfunction in institutional administration,” suggested Ssekitoleeko
Following conversations, the board chose that the healthcare facility’s Supervisor, Dr Peter Mukobi, presently away on main responsibilities in Kampala, must report to the Gulu Central Police headquarters and tape a declaration concerning the scenario prior to the Cops can figure out just how to wage examinations right into the issue.
Dispersed by APO Team in behalf of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.
