Clinics take land titles from Covid patients to give treatment
A few medical clinics have anyway depended on requesting substantial resources like land titles prior to giving therapy to the basically sick.
As Ugandans scramble for the little accessible bed space in clinics in a journey to save lives of their basically sick family members, private clinics have selected to opportunist from the crisis.Hospitals like Med-Save, Victoria clinic and Case Hospital among others are charging intensely to treat the fundamentally sick Covid patients. “We are charged day by day UGX 5m for simply persistent support in the ICU,” one of the family members to the basically sick Covid patients at Norvik medical clinic says. “You don’t have a decision however contend energetically to search for the cash and sort the bills. You need your comparative with recover so you need to battle by all methods and get the cash,” she adds.
A few medical clinics have anyway depended on requesting substantial resources like land titles prior to giving therapy to the basically sick. “I was approached to introduce my territory title so my senior sister would be dealt with,” Muzafalu who had a patient at Case Hospital says. “The emergency clinic the board said that on the off chance that I would not collect the cash, I should give my property title as security,” he adds.
MPs respond
On Monday morning, a segment of NRM lawmakers who have battled to meet the robust clinic bills for their family members authorized a presser in which they censured the unfurling improvements. Dickson Kateshumbwa who addresses Sheema region approached the Office of the Prime Minister to rein into the wellbeing emergency. “Private ospitals are charging an excess of cash and no one is controlling them,” he said. “Wellbeing ought to be an assistance and not a benefit creating open door. We censure all emergency clinics swindling our kin and we request the Ministry from Health to review their licenses,” he added.
Most NRM lawmakers have had a Coronavirus blasted relative who has been conceded in the emergency unit these private clinics. Subsequent to encountering the agony of treating a patient in the private medical clinics, the NRM MPs presently look for government intercession. Reached for a remark, Minister for Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng requested that Ugandans blacklist private clinics and rather go to government medical clinics for ‘moderate’ prescription.
