Authorities has launched a brand new reform within the well being sector to uplift the standing of well being centre IVs to neighborhood hospitals.
This was revealed by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja in the course of the plenary sitting on Thursday, 08 August 2024, chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa.
“Based mostly on the Ministry of Well being Draft Nationwide Well being Coverage 2024, Authorities has launched a reform of upgrading the standing of well being centre IVs with 24 mattress capability to neighborhood hospitals with 60 mattress capability,” Nabbanja mentioned.
She added, “this will likely be undertaken in a phased method prioritising well being centre IVs with excessive catchment inhabitants, and 135 constituencies with out well being centre IVs primarily based on geographical entry, inhabitants protection and useful resource availability”.
Nabbanja was responding to a query raised by Omoro County Member of Parliament, Hon. Andrew Ojok, who inquired of the updates on the presidential directive to assemble a hospital in every district.
She mentioned the transfer to assemble neighborhood hospitals will save the nation excessive prices required to assemble a normal hospital in every of the 82 districts with out a hospital, noting that the estimated value of development and equipping a normal hospital is Shs 70 billion.
Alternatively, the estimated value of establishing and equipping a neighborhood hospital is Shs 12 billion, in accordance the Premier.
Moreover, to totally operationalise a normal hospital, authorities would require recurrent prices together with wage, non-wage, medicines and well being provides estimated at Shs 12.238 billion every year, but Shs 4 billion would be the annual recurrent prices to operationalize a neighborhood hospital,” mentioned Nabbanja.
She additionally revealed that 381 well being centre IIs have been uplifted to well being centre III standing since Monetary 12 months 2018/2019 and that 87 % of sub-counties and city councils have a useful well being centre III.
One other 31 well being centre IIIs are underneath development. Shs 4 billion is required to cowl the remaining 488 sub counties, Nabbanja mentioned.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.