State Minister for Defence, Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi, will this Monday preside over the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the isolation unit and an operating theatre at Kisoro Hospital.
The function slated for 8th April, 2024, will be held at Kisoro Hospital grounds, starting 9 am.
From here, Minister Nyirabashitsi and officials from the ministry of health will proceed to Busanza Health Centre III, where an operating theatre is under construction.
Geses Uganda Ltd contracted the isolation unit at Kisoro hospital, while Denka Company Limited contracted the two theatres at Kisoro Hospital and Busanza Health Centre III.
The projects are funded by World Bank through the Uganda Covid-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (UCREPP), in the Ministry of Health.
According to Doreen Nshabohurira, the UCREPP project Communications Officer, all the three projects are slated to be completed within a period of one year.
Nshabohurira told www.vomuhabura.com that the isolation unit will cost approximately Ugx 4.1 billion, while the two theatres will cost approximately Ugx 1.8 billion.
In a phone interview, the Kisoro Hospital Medical Superintendent, Dr Emmanuel Bahane, said the facilities have come at the right time.
According to him, they have been struggling with isolation space for infections like TB, Ebola, diarrhoea and others, adding that the Covid-19 pandemic overstretched Kisoro’s healthcare system.
Dr Bahane said, “You know, being at the border, we get some incidents where isolation is necessary, and we lack that space.”
“Our current theatre has cracks and risks collapsing anytime. A new theatre is a blessing to us because we have been using a theatre that is at the level of a Health Centre IV, but what we are getting is for a General Hospital.”
The Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (UCREPP) was conceived by the Government of Uganda and the World Bank in 2020 to address the rapid rise in community transmission of COVID-19.
UCREPP’s objective is to prevent, detect and respond to COVID-19 and strengthen national systems for public health emergency preparedness in Uganda.
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