KENYAN DOCTOR SPEAKS ABOUT UGANDA'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

KENYAN DOCTOR SPEAKS ABOUT UGANDA'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

If you are Ugandan, some food for thought here:

 

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Mwangi | Nairobi, Kenya.

As a Kenyan medical doctor I have come to learn two things about Ugandans. You only complain about your healthcare system when something is wrong with you as an individual.

Secondly you vote a government back into power that for the last 30 years has failed to bring your healthcare system into the 3rd world without taking it into account.

You are a 4th world medical power that produces 1st world doctors. Makerere Medical School today would rank top 4th in Africa. Anyone who lectures at that Medical School is a world class doctor. Forget about those in private practice.

Your government should concentrate on Mulago, Jinja, Mbarara and Gulu Hospitals as centres of excellence.

My boss is a Ugandan doctor who left because of not just poor pay but poor infrastructure. He now earns 700,000 kshs. Your President has only done one thing that we Kenyans respect him, for involving the National Army to solve petty issues, land grabbings, the Army to taking over the roles of the Police work and building a powerful army for destabilizing neighbouring countries around you. In terms of service delivery, democracy and respect of human rights is an absolute failure!

We are told that Museveni cannot even get treatment in Mulago. How do you choose your own personal doctor to investigate poor service delivery? No wonder she did not name poor remuneration of doctors as a problem. So, you as Ugandans are to blame for your poor healthcare system.

We have about 500 Ugandan doctors working here and they feel nothing for you because they think you are the cause.

So style up and put the government to task. If you value your lives you should put doctors in a separate class of servants. In all first world countries they are among the highest paid individuals and they are made to account for that money through their work.

It's only in Uganda where witch doctors earn more than their medical counterparts.

You should be ashamed!