Rakai- The State House Medical and Health Monitoring Unit has implicated medical officers in two health centres in Rakai District in the misuse of government drugs.
The affected health centres are Kakuuto and Kacheera, both health centre IV’s
The team spent more than two weeks inspecting various health centres in the district and service delivery in most of them was found wanting.
According to Dr Diana Atwine, the director of the unit, the two health centres have since 2014 been grappling with acute drug shortage.
“The administrators of these units have consistently claimed that the National Medical Store (NMS) fails to supply them with enough drugs as per the requisition, which is not true. The drugs are dispatched, but when they reach the facilities, they are sold by some unscrupulous staff,” she said in an interview on Tuesday.
District authorities on Monday convened a crisis meeting to devise measures of ending the vice. The meeting was attended by the newly elected district councillors, the speaker and district chairperson Robert Benon Mugabi.
During the meeting, Mr Mugabi presented to the councillors a preliminary report compiled from May 2-19, 2016.
He said the contents of the report corroborates with their earlier findings which revealed that medical staff at the two health centres usually connive with drug store keepers to steal the drugs.
“What we know is that NMS has been supplying drugs to Kakuuto and Kacheera health centres effectively. But you wonder how the drugs run out of stock in just a few days,” he said on Tuesday.
Dr Atwine said she will soon release a report detailing her recommendations to the district executive, which must be implemented to improve health service delivery in the district.
However, Nabigasa Sub-county councillor Vincent Kayondo, blamed the district health committee for failing to monitor the proper distribution of drugs, especially in government health units
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