No hospital, no oxygen – Pader’s predicament

The shortfall of a clinic has denied Pader region the chance of getting clinical oxygen expected to help the administration of Covid-19 basic cases.

Subsequently, the region wellbeing office can’t presently oversee basic cases that they get, URN has learnt.

The region administrator, Col Obwoya Fearless Oyat said an authority from the Ministry of Health disclosed to him that clinical oxygen is just being given to area medical clinics, provincial and public reference clinics. Bended out of Kitgum locale in 2000, Pader has one wellbeing community IV, 13 wellbeing place IIIs and 29 heath place IIs. The locale had a populace of 180,000 individuals as indicated by the National Population and Housing Census 2014.

Col Obwoya Fearles Oyat told a coordination meeting on Friday last week that according to the goal of Covid-19 taskforce, he went with six void chambers to top off with oxygen, just to be told from the Ministry of Health that oxygen isn’t given to an office with status of wellbeing focus IV.

This criticism didn’t go down well for certain individuals from the Pader locale taskforce. They engaged the public authority to return to their choice to permit even areas without a clinic to get to oxygen.

The administrator Urban Council Pader, Mr Kilama Fearless Wodacholi contemplated whether the public authority truly focuses on its residents when they say just area clinics, local and public reference clinics can get to oxygen.

Pader acting District Health Officer (DHO), Ms Apio Anna said their endeavors to redesign Pajule wellbeing focus IV to an area medical clinic have not yielded natural products throughout the previous 21 years. She said the locale Covid-19 taskforce was left with three Covid-19 patients that were in basic condition because of absence of clinical oxygen.

She added that the patients were alluded to Gulu Regional Referral Hospital yet couldn’t be conceded because of absence of room at the medical clinic.

Actually like different regions in Uganda, instances of Covid-19 pandemic are on the upsurge in Pader with a sum of 115 positive cases presently being overseen under locally established consideration.

An aggregate of 6,778 examples were taken and tried since the start of Covid-19 pandemic, 488 cases were affirmed positive while 376 cases have recuperated, with 6 instances of passings enrolled.

In any case, the Resident District Commissioner, Mr Ducman Okee, additionally the region Covid-19 taskforce executive recognized the issue yet said the public authority is focused on guaranteeing the region gets a clinic.

He said with the assistance of companions and well-wishers, we will top off our unfilled chambers with oxygen from Gulu city here in our district. Pader lady Member of Parliament Ms Paska Aciro Menya said there is a more noteworthy requirement for coordination among region pioneers for individuals to get compelling help conveyance. She lauded the public authority for giving the area a rescue vehicle to help the crisis.

The vice president Administrative Officer (CAO) Mr James Okumu, said a 958million Shilling Covid-19 reaction plan has been endorsed.

The arrangement incorporates, raising local area mindfulness, inoculation, and limit working of faculty and enlistment of staff on agreement.