The Wash committee of Parliament, on Wednesday visited Kiruddu Hospital to assess its hygiene and promised to appropriate more funds to enhance its expansion to suit the hospital status.
The Members of Parliaments led by the chairperson of the committee Hon. Amongin Jacquillin, also cleaned the hospital toilets as part of the activities to celebrate Parliamentary symposium on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and the world toilets day.
Currently the hospital which was built as a health center IV was upgraded to a hospital status without considering the space on which it is sitting on.
This has imposed a very big challenge to the administration given the fact that it is acting as a referral hospital handling a huge population which was not anticipated during its design.
The Director Dr Charles Kabugo says the 200 bed capacity hospital is over whelmed with the number of patients being handled amidst other challenges.
The chairperson of the committee on WASH Hon. Amongin Jacquillin also woman MP for Ngora District promised to lobby Parliament for increased funding to the hospital to enhance better service delivery.
