NAMAYINGO, UGANDA: Leaders in Namayingo district have decried the less number of health workers in the health facilities making the ratio of Health workers to patients imbalanced.
Led by the Chairperson LC 3 Namayingo town council, Buseni Ssebide, Leaders says that they have less number of health workers and called upon government to recruit more workers for better service delivery to the community members.
Speaking at the launch of Health Workers Forum, an association that brings together health workers in Namayingo district, Ssebide said that Namayingo district boarders Kenya and Tanzania which has also causes high population in the area since some people cross from their motherlands to Namayingo and also shares the same facilities with people living in the district.
”Our district is neighbouring two countries that is Kenya and Tanzania which has caused our population to increase since some people cross from either sides entering Uganda and settling in Namayingo. We urge government to increase the number of Health workers in our district such that everyone patient can be handled with swift care,” Ssebide said.
Health Workers started the day with cleaning Namayingo town and Buyinja health center IV before holding their function at the facility on Thursday, October 21.
Ssebidde also blamed parents and guardians who have abandoned their responsibilities by involving their children in street vending of Maize, groundnuts, Oranges, sweet banana, among other items saying that it has affected girl children who have since been impregnated by men in Namayingo town.
”Parents and guardians have not managed their responsibilities well since many have involved their children in street vending, a point which has exposed young girls to pregnancy by men in the town,” Ssebide said adding that boy children should also be guided not to involve in works which may block them from attending school next year as a result of getting some money.
David Bwire, Councillor representing people with disabilities in Namayingo said that they continue having less health workers despite being a district with more hard-to-reach areas and surrounded by lake Victoria. He urged government to train some people within Namayingo to manage health facilities in hard-to-reach areas.
”We have less health workers and Namayingo is a hard-to-reach district and some areas are surrounded by Waters which makes such areas not easy to access, but you find a good number of health workers in districts like Iganga, Mayuge and others which are not surrounded by Water”
”Government should at least train some people from our district to handle work at health facilities which are hard-to-reach ,” Bwire said before adding that they used to boast their incomes with fishing but the army has taken up all landing sites in the district.
However, Bwire called upon government to also improve on the faces of some Health centers and equip them with drugs.
Speaking to Daily Express, the Chairperson of the Health Workers Forum in Namayingo, Resty Musasizi said they decided to form this association with the aim of supporting themselves through getting side income. She beseeched some other Organisations to join other people in supporting them in various ways to fulfill their goals like organizing community health camps.
”We decided to form this Association to help one another after generating side income. We will be organizing community health camps especially in hard-to-reach areas of the district in order to offer services to people who finds difficulty in accessing government health facilities,” Musasizi said.
She said that they are facing a challenge of among others, less number of health workers in facilities like Buyinja health centre IV, to carry-out better service delivery to the community.
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