Jinja Hospital on the spot for failing to enforce COVID-19 guidelines

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Joyce Moriku Kaducu has accused management of Jinja regional referral hospital for failing to enforce the COVID-19 presidential directives.

While inspecting the hospital’s isolation centre on Sunday, Kaducu said that security personnel have failed to limit the entry of vehicles which are leading to congestion as they are parked outside the wards, contrary to the COVID-19 standard operating procedures.

Although they have instituted several hand washing facilities and temperature checkpoints in the different parts of the hospital, Kaducu says that several attendants are allowed inside the hospital unchecked which frustrates the efforts to control the spread of covid-19.

Kaducu further says that despite the presence of a suspected case in the isolation unit, police officers freely allow riders to park their motorcycles within the hospital premises at a fee of 1,000 Shillings each, which deprives patients and their attendants of ample resting areas free from congestion.

She further directed hospital administrators to institute a parking yard where health workers can easily park their vehicles without congesting the facility.

Florence Tugimisirize, the hospital director says that sensitization drives have been made as a means of decongesting the hospital however, attendants have remained adamant.

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