{"id":22512,"date":"2016-05-23T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=22512"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:10:41","slug":"mbale-referral-hospital-struggling-with-an-acute-drug-stock-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/mbale-referral-hospital-struggling-with-an-acute-drug-stock-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbale referral hospital struggling with an acute drug stock out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Mbale regional referral hospital is grappling with an acute drug stock out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">Patients are now said to be buying essential drugs from private health facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">The Principal Hospital Administrator, Simon Kisabagire acknowledges the problem which he attributed to poor funding by government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">He says the hospital budgeted for Shs1.5 billion but only received Shs 980 million for the financial year 2015\/2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">He says in the most recent cycle, the hospital only received 55% of the requisitioned drugs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">\u00a0According to Kisabagire they are mostly out of Oxygen, Anesthetics, Antibiotic and Artesunate injection for people with complicated malaria especially pregnant women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">He adds that the hospital caters for about 4 million people from 14 districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mbale regional referral hospital is grappling with an acute drug stock out. Patients are now said to be buying essential drugs from private health facilities. The Principal Hospital Administrator, Simon Kisabagire acknowledges the problem which he attributed to poor funding by government. He says the hospital budgeted for Shs1.5 billion but only received Shs 980 million for the financial year 2015\/2016. He says in the most recent cycle, the hospital only received 55% of the requisitioned drugs. \u00a0According to Kisabagire they are mostly out of Oxygen, Anesthetics, Antibiotic and Artesunate injection for people with complicated malaria especially pregnant women. 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