By Flavia Ajok
Masindi district councillors have expressed their concern over what they described as the poor state of operations at Masindi main hospital.
While addressing the council that was chaired by the Masindi district council speaker, Moses Kiirya, on Wednesday at Masindi district council chambers, Bright Patrick Tibigambwa, the councilor representing Miirya Sub County, expressed his concern as to why the district executive failed to highlight the operations of the hospital.
Tibigambwa said, during the previous council meeting, the issues of Masindi hospital came up, but the executive did not indicate the strategies of handling the challenges at the hospital, sighting the issues of darkness.
Tibigambwa also reported that the masses are not happy with how work is being done at the Masindi hospital theatre, where people, most especially expectant mothers, are being charged exorbitantly when they undergo caesarean deliveries.
On the other hand, Simon Byaruhanga, another councillor voiced two scenarios at the hospital where an attendant was raped at night and a baby was stolen, adding that cases of theft are also rampant.
Byaruhanga also poked holes in the security of Masindi main hospital, urging that gates are open without gatekeepers’ day in and day out, yet the district local government spends money on their salaries.
However, Samson Natsambwa, the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, responded to the concerns raised by councilors by promising to call for a general meeting with the hospital staff to find a solution to the problems raised.
