HE government said yesterday it is well committed to confront major challenges in the funding and delivery of rural health care, stressing that plans are underway to improve the health sector across the country.
The Deputy Minister of State President
Office (Regional Administration and Local Governments), Mr Selemani
Jaffo, issued the government position in the National Assembly while
responding to a supplementary question by Special Seats legislator Ms
Azza Hillal Hamad (CCM).
The lawmaker had enquired for a the
government’s position regarding the state of health care delivery in
Shinyanga Rural District.
“The cost for setting up a district
hospital is too high. Construction of the district hospital has taken
more than seven years yet the project hasn’t been completed. Why has the
government failed to consider initiating a special fund for hospitals?”
she questioned.
She went on to say, there has only been
one hospital in Shinyanga offering health care services. “When will
Shinyanga and Kishapu Districts get district hospitals?”
In response, Mr Jaffo admitted that
there are challenges in funding and delivery of rural health care but
added that: “The government is aware of the growing demand for services
and is committed to addressing it by allocating funds.”
He explained that construction of a
referral hospital in Shinyanga is going on. While the government could
not raise the three billion shillings requested last year, the deputy
minister said arrangements are being made in a quest to increase revenue
collections to finance construction of health care delivery units.
He explained, however, that construction of Shinyanga District Hospital is going on well.
The work, according to Mr Jaffo,
includes construction of two wards, Outpatient Department (OPD) building
and doctors’ consultation rooms which all costs 368m/-.
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