The Bukoba District Council constructed six dispensaries during the 2012/13 fiscal year as part of efforts to ensure proper provision of health services to the people.
Bukoba District Chairman, Mr Dauda Kateme named the wards where the dispensaries were constructed as Butelankuzi, Ruhunga, Kikomero, Izimbya, Bugabo (Kishanje) and Kyamulaire (Mashule). He said medical experts and enough drugs had already been dispatched to the respective dispensaries.
Meanwhile, the Bukoba District Council is constructing two special secondary schools to cost over 432.1m/- upon completion, being implementation of a government directive to have quality education.
Mr Kateme named the schools as Bujugangoma, in Katerero ward to cost over 192.3m/- and Nyakibimbiri, in Nyakibimbiri ward to cost over 239.7m/- upon completion. He noted that the schools will have essential facilities including laboratories for chemistry and physics, teachers’ quarters, latrines, water and enough classrooms.
“The two schools would serve as catalyst for people to emulate and build similar schools in the district,” he said. According to Mr Kateme, the two schools would also be allocated enough teachers with the aim of attaining the best results and quality education in the near future.
He appealed to the residents of Bukoba to cooperate by donating building materials and ensure that the materials were not vandalized. In another development, the municipal council is constructing a district hospital in an effort to control congestion of patients at the Bukoba Referral hospital, the Municipal Director, Mr Limbakisye Shimwera, has disclosed.
He said the construction of the hospital was in final stages at Nshambya ward and would serve as out-patient department comprising of eight wards. For some time now patients reporting at the Bukoba Referral hospital could not get treatment on time due to lack of a district hospital.
The Bukoba Referral hospital faces an acute shortage of medical staff, forcing one doctor to attend to over 50,000 patients, far beyond the average standard set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Medical Officer-in-Charge for Bukoba Referral hospital, Dr Juma Nyakina, said the hospital had a shortage of six specialist doctors and ten medical officers. “Due to the shortage, each doctor attends an average of 50,660 patients, far beyond the standard set by WHO.
Also, assistant medical officers are forced to attend an average of 21.771 patients,” he said. According to Dr Nyakina, the number of in-patients (IPD) admitted to the Bukoba Referral hospital increased from 15,254 in 2011 to 15,933 patients last year implying a 12.5 per cent increase.
Source Tanzania Daily News