Govt Hospital Has No Toilets
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The Monitor (Kampala)
April 24, 2004
Posted to the web April 26, 2004
David Mafabi
Mbale
Bududa government hospital here has no toilets. The deputy Resident District
Commissioner here Mr Cox Nyakairu told the press at his office on Thursday that the
situation was pathetic and required urgent attention.
Nyakairu toured the hospital with the police's Community Liaison Officer Ms Irene
Kakai on Wednesday.
He said that the toilets have stopped working while the pit latrines are filled up.
He said human waste litters everywhere, which exposes patients to risk.
"The situation is pathetic, human waste has to be scooped from the filled up latrine
pits using basins and poured in the compound," he said.
Nyakairu said that when it rains, the human waste is swept into the nearby River
Tsutsu, which also serves as the hospital's water source for patients and staff.
Nyakairu said the facility does not deserve to be referred to as a hospital and that
the health inspector has threatened to close it.
The Chairman of the district committee of Health and Social Services, Mr Rex Wangolo,
admitted that the hospital's toilets and latrines are inoperative.
"The hospital does not have toilets and pit latrines. My department visited and
received a report last year from the medical superintendent Dr George Wamasebu
indicating that there were no pit latrines and the toilet system at the hospital had
stopped working over 10 years ago," Wangolo said.
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He said he reported to the district administration and that Shs 10 million was
earmarked from the Local Government Development Programme funds for construction of
pit latrines.
Dr Wamasebu and the Hospital Administrator Mr Kenneth Wafula could not be reached for
comment.
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