The
Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI) patients overcrowding is expected
to end this July, thanks to the initiative by the institute to
construct a new building at the hospital.
MOI Executive Director Dr Othman Kiloloma told The Guardian on Sunday that Sh17.5billion has been spent for the new building construction to accommodate 340 patients.
The current building can only accommodate 152 orthopaedic patients but surpasses with 280 of them.
Dr Kiloloma said plans are there to ensure that all referral hospitals of Amana, Mwananyamala, and Temeke in the city are equipped with Orthopaedic services to enable more patients’ access to such services.
Other hospitals in the pipeline include Tumbi Hospital in the Coast Region and Morogoro hospital.
“Over one-third of patients we receive here can be treated at referral hospitals but we fail to send them back due to lack of such services,” he said.
According to him, Moi will soon engage on training medical professionals in the said hospitals on ‘eyes on, hands on’, which means treatments and training at once and ‘eyes on, hand off’ for observing how trainees perform their work on orthopaedic patients including monitoring and evaluation.
However, he said such training will commence after this years’ budget is passed saying proposals for the training has already been submitted to the Regional Administration and Local Governments (RALG).
The funds to be allocated will cater for bones theaters renovation, brain, spine and nerves surgeries; medicines and the purchase of other health equipment.
MOI will also have the task force committee to monitor health service integration to more than 80 percent hospitals that operates under RALG.
MOI Executive Director Dr Othman Kiloloma told The Guardian on Sunday that Sh17.5billion has been spent for the new building construction to accommodate 340 patients.
The current building can only accommodate 152 orthopaedic patients but surpasses with 280 of them.
Dr Kiloloma said plans are there to ensure that all referral hospitals of Amana, Mwananyamala, and Temeke in the city are equipped with Orthopaedic services to enable more patients’ access to such services.
Other hospitals in the pipeline include Tumbi Hospital in the Coast Region and Morogoro hospital.
“Over one-third of patients we receive here can be treated at referral hospitals but we fail to send them back due to lack of such services,” he said.
According to him, Moi will soon engage on training medical professionals in the said hospitals on ‘eyes on, hands on’, which means treatments and training at once and ‘eyes on, hand off’ for observing how trainees perform their work on orthopaedic patients including monitoring and evaluation.
However, he said such training will commence after this years’ budget is passed saying proposals for the training has already been submitted to the Regional Administration and Local Governments (RALG).
The funds to be allocated will cater for bones theaters renovation, brain, spine and nerves surgeries; medicines and the purchase of other health equipment.
MOI will also have the task force committee to monitor health service integration to more than 80 percent hospitals that operates under RALG.
SOURCE:
GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
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