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Also, minor procedures like band incisions and examination under anesthesia will cost a patient Shs800, 000. Complicated procedures like IVF and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection will cost Shs13, 000,000 and Shs14, 600,000 respectively. Antenatal care will go for 890,000; accommodation in the general ward for Shs80, 000 per day, normal delivery at Shs800, 000 and a Caesarian Section will go for Shs2,000,000.
The hospital’s Acting Executive Director, Dr. Evelyn Nabunya who is also a consultant gynecologist, while this price list was formulated by cabinet, the government is also in a process of setting up a committee to come up with criteria for eligibility of patients both in terms of affordability and weighing if the patient’s condition cannot be handled elsewhere.
She says they will only receive those referred from the 13 regional referral hospitals across the country and three national referrals of Naguru, Mulago and Kawempewho willbe admitted depending on class with rooms divided into platinum, gold and silver to cater for the different social economic groups.
“Treatment fees will be standard whether you are admitted in general or platinum. What will change are the daily accommodation fees,” she says. For women like Nakyeyune who have been longing for affordable quality maternal healthcare,Nabunya’s pledge sounds like their search is about to end.
