To start offering dialysis services to patients, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital needs UGX500M.
This, the hospital said, will reduce on the long distances and traffic jam patients endure while seeking for the same services at Kiruddu Hospital in Kampala.
The request was made by Dr. Alfred Yayi, Director of Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. He was appearing before Parliament’s Health Committee to present the Hospital’s 2025/26 Budget Framework Paper estimates.
He informed MPs of the increasing need for dialysis services and there is an organisation that have provided the machines and all government has to do is avail money for reagents.
“Patients travel every week to Kiruddu for dialysis services and there is a huge demand on us to start providing these services.
We are partnering with some organization they are ready to give us the equipment and we have the space, but we need resources for reagents and utilities so that we can provide these services at slightly a subsidized cost.
So on behalf of the people of Busoga, we would request for at an allocation of at least Shs500M to support dialysis services that we want to start as soon as possible,” Dr. Yayi explained.
Jinja Hospital also asked for the provision of funds for the construction of boreholes and water harvesting facilities in order to reduce on the huge water bills that have condemned the facility into perpetual water arrears.
Dr. Yayi stated that the situation is exacerbated by the old water infrastructure that have caused numerous leakages, thus increasing the water bill.
“We want to overhaul the plumbing system and that requires UGX300Mn. We have a huge problem of arrears especially for NWSC and we need support to establish motorized borehole and improve on water harvesting and also improve on the issue of overhauling the plumbing system because what is happening is that we are losing a lot of water through the leakages because of the old systems,” noted Dr. Yayi.
