Uganda: Hospital Oxygen Plants Not Functioning, Committee Warns

A Ugandan parliamentary committee warned that oxygen plants at the regional referral hospitals in Moroto, Yumbe and Soroti are not functioning or remain incomplete. At Moroto, two plants valued at Shs3.72 billion have been out of service for three years, while equipment in Soroti has not been handed over or serviced. Legislator Sarah Lwansasula urged the Ministry of Health and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces Engineering Brigade to complete and hand over the plants within 60 days. The report also cited late medicine deliveries by National Medical Stores and stock-outs lasting as long as 400 days in Soroti.