The government plans to redistribute specialized doctors and health officers to ensure equal provision of health services in hospitals across the country, the parliament heard yesterday.
Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children, Ummy Mwalimu told the lawmakers in Dodoma that the government has resorted to the move in acknowledgement of the dire need of specialists, namely doctors and medical officers in regional and district hospitals.
“It might be a painful exercise to doctors who do not want to be moved upcountry, but I humbly ask you, the lawmakers to support the government in this endeavour; we would not like to see politicians defending deviant doctors once the exercise begins,” the minister said, though short of stating when the exercise was due to start.
She was responding to a supplementary question by Special Seats MP, Munde Abdallah (CCM) who wanted to know about the government’s plan in addressing the shortage of health expertise in nine regional hospitals, namely Tabora, Singida, Geita,Rukwa, Kigoma, Katavi, Njombe, Simiyu and Shinyanga.
In another development, the government has reiterated its plan to ensure all the referral hospitals in the country are equipped with Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI), CT-Scan and x-ray equipments as minister of State in the President's Office-Public Service Management and Good Governance, Angellah Kairuki told parliamentarian in the same session.
“The government plans to install patient monitor, pulse oxymeter and oxygen concentrator in all regional hospitals,” she said implying additional facilities that are involved in the plan.
She was responding to a question by Special Seats MP, Munde Abdallah (CCM) who had wanted to know if the government had a plan to provide Tabora regional hospitals with necessary medical equipments.
The questions were typical of public complaints that patients at the nation’s leading medical institution Muhimbili National Hospital had been deprived of basic services due to shortage of medical gear, describing the situation regional referral hospitals as unbearable.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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