Comments for Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:30:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24968 Lastly, the funds provided for the procurement and management of medical supplies in district hospitals are JUST ENOUGH to ensure that the “minimum health care package” is effectively delivered. If utilised well, this fund could cover all the essential medicines, laboratory supplies, maternal supplies…etc without stock-outs throughout a given fiscal year. I say this with authority. Quote me on this. - Manyilirah Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:02:03 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24967 (2). Secondly, all civil servants should be employed on contract. This will ensure that one is compensated for what is worth their contribution. The era of “being permanent and pensionable” should end. THERE ARE NO COMPLEX SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS FACING UGANDA’S SOCIAL SERVICES SECTOR. WE JUST NEED TO GET SERIOUS, THINK BIG, BE SELFLESS, AND MORE SO WE NEED GOOD ROLE MODELS IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP OF THE VARIOUS SERVICE PROJECTS. - Manyilirah Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:58:51 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24966 The ministry of health officials, district leaders (political and otherwise) need to do some serious soul searching. We are rotten! I do suggest the following as possible partial solutions: (1). the implicated officers and especially their supervisors (such as District Health Officers and district Personnel Officers and members of the central and regional supervision teams) should be severely punished without fear or favour. How on earth, for example, could 252 or even two health workers not access the payroll? We are just jokers! This is sickening! The responsible officers ought to resign, or be sacked. - Manyilirah Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:55:40 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24965 In my opinion the focus should be on finding out how, in a "stable country" like Uganda with supposedly visionary (or illusionists?) leaders, could these vices go unabated for this long? I believe the MHMU is just a “knee-jerk reaction”, not appropriate at all if systems are to function efficiently, considering that there is a plethora of established organs empowered to oversee the delivery of health services in this country. The MHMU provides no permanent solution to the poor health services in Uganda. Period! It (finding solutions) goes beyond just arresting a few health-workers and way beyond the lamentations by our president currently obsessed with attacks on the poor medical doctors. - Manyilirah Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:51:05 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24964 I am a health-worker, but frankly speaking the state of health service delivery, just as for other social services in our country, is very depressing. The above report, by the Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit (MHMU), does not at all help matters. It only goes a long way to show how wretched and unserious we've become in this country! The report has not unearthed anything new; mismanagement (and its magnitude) of medical supplies, absenteeism of public officers, payroll mismanagement, ghost this and that....etc are very well known vices in Uganda. - Manyilirah Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:46:31 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24948 Interestingly, when you move to another country to work as a health care worker, they say you are one of the best that has ever worked for them and then ask where you trained.Now the catch is you tell them Uganda, they get interested in visiting a place with such "an excellent medical system".That is when you have to start explaining that actually the healthcare workers are very good and well trained but maybe it is not a good idea to check out he actual healthcare system because it is a little different.That is the true irony of working in healthcare in Uganda.You waste alot of talent dealing with useless politics. - Jude Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:55:19 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/component/content/106-myblog/2597-medicines-and-health-service-delivery-monitoring-unit#comment-24947 It isn't surprising that something like this pops up from state house to "fix" something.Having worked in Uganda's health care system and for some of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world, this joke is depressing.The problem in Uganda's health care system, just like the problems of unemployment,in the education, the road and railway network, the tribalism etc has nothing to do with Ugandans but a gov't that has failed.How can you steal what doesnt exist! I remember having to pull out money from my pocket buy pain killers for dying patients and then hours later hear the local LC chairman on radio say the health workers are stealing.Then you meet same guy in a clinic you work in coming for treatment instead of the "stocked' hospital.Ugandans should just vote these idiots out. - Jude Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:44:53 +0100