Mbarara hospital receives Shs 70mln ultrasound scan

MBARARA– Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital [MRRH] has received an ultrasound scan from Seed Global Health, a non-governmental organisation that operates worldwide.

According to Dr Prisca Kizito, an emergency physician at MRRH and a lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and Technology [MUST], the donated equipment will play a multipurpose role in both the clinical department and teaching when it comes to emergency medicine.

“This is going to serve both our academic but also clinical roles. You can see already there is a patient in the riser station.”

She said medical professionals would benefit much from ultrasound skills to grow their capacity in emergency medicine residencies.

“For us as teachers, we will maintain the skills because if you have something and you are teaching, you keep growing in that line. So on behalf of the two medical institutions, I would like to appreciate Seed Global Health for giving us this piece of equipment for continuous emergency care and academic delivery,” she said.

She said the ultra-scan in the hospital will be essential in helping patients who are traumatic as a result of road accidents, low blood pressure, and many others.

She said the ultrasound scan quickens the treatment in the pediatric and maternity wards where patients need support.

“Actually with such a tool, patients will benefit from being investigated without being moved to different locations in the hospital.  It is a sophisticated tool to placate bedridden patients and also follow up their management to improve on their results.”

However, Dr Kizito urged the government to increase the number of doctors and nurses to attend to patients, especially in the emergency department.

Allan G. Nsubuga, the Programme’s Manager at Seed Global Health, encouraged the hospital’s doctors to fully utilise the ultrasound scan.

“Ensure that the machine is kept in good working condition and we are hopeful that it serves the purpose of saving the lives of people.”

In his remarks, Halson Kagure, the hospital’s publicist said the equipment would add value to medical specialists dispensing health services in emergency units of the hospital.

Kagure added that, “This is a point of curbing down instances where patients tend to overwhelm the available machines or some missing out on proper diagnosis in the hospital.”

Dr. Celestine Barigye, the hospital director also says equipping the hospital with such diagnostic machines would ease the ways of carrying out tests from samples.

“Such equipment is critical in health care set-up and without them, the entire ecosystem risks stalling,” Barigye said

He also commended government’s move to revamp the health facility, which he said has already started making enormous progress in areas of dispensing quality health services.

There is a possibility that Mbarara regional referral hospital might soon attain a national referral status given the growing areas of specialized services currently offered in the region.

On April 29, 2022, a team of experts led by Dr Felix Oyania, a pediatric surgeon at the health facility separated the twins whose intestines were exposed, urinary bladders conjoined, and also they did not have an outlet.

According to Barigye, the complex operation was successful because they have built a strong team of specialists at the hospital.

“If we did not have a specialist for the gallbladder, the operation could not take place so getting all these specialties in one place is not easy,” he said.

Barigye said the babies are still alive in the hospital and being monitored by doctors pending further operations before being discharged.

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