RDC Nyakahuma directs on transport facilitation for health workers at Kabale regional referal hospital.

Kabale: The Kabale Resident District Commissioner, Godfrey Nyakahuma has directed authorities at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital to provide transport means to health workers and intern doctors who work on night duty at the hospital.

This follows concerns raised by intern doctors that they have on several occasions been attacked and robbed while going back home from the hospital.

They (intern doctors) have been calling for urgent intervention from the local, regional and national authorities to address the security and accommodation challenges faced by the interns.

While at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital yesterday, Nyakahuma told our reporter that they have so far registered three cases where intern doctors have been attacked and their properties taken. He thus asked the hospital administration to arrange transport means for health workers and intern doctors on night duty so that they are protected and their properties.

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Authorities at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital have been protesting against the delayed handover of the 7.8 billion shillings hostel for health workers and medical interns at the hospital, which has remained closed, a year after it was completed.

Musuza Building Contractors Limited earlier this year said they would not hand over the hostel until the government pays an outstanding balance of 790 million shillings, the company reportedly incurred in extra costs.