MULAGO READY FOR INVESTIGATIONS

MULAGO READY FOR INVESTIGATIONS
Following the appearance of Dr Diana Atwine the head of the state house Drug Monitoring Unit before parliament’s social services committee last week where she accused Mulago Hospital Administration of corruption and misuse of office coupled with constant inflating and procurement of faulty bio-medical machines, Mulago hospital has come out to show their commitment and readiness for an investigation as suggested by the members of parliament on the social services committee.
In an interview with The Razor, Mulago Hospital spokes person Dan Atwijukire Kimosho the hospital had agreed with the law makers to pay a courtesy visit to the national referral hospital and make a few findings on their own.
“The official position is that the Members of parliament come and make a few findings on their own not just to go by hearsay and that we agreed the last time we met with them” said Dan Atwijukire. “But if they want to make a surprise visit or mount an investigation we are still ready for such, for we believe our hands are clean and even if we touched white linen a thousand times it will still remain clean” he added.
However, he seems to point an accusing finger at the previous administration which was headed by Dr Edward Ddumba when he says that that all kinds of mismanagement if any should be blamed not on the current administrators.
“Let me tell you the current administration is barely a year in office so I wonder how one can say we are corrupt, if there is any form of corruption then it is the previous regime to be investigated, actually we are making the once crooked lines straight” he said.
According to a reliable source in the administration, Mulago hospital used about 800 million to procure a CT scan which worked for only two months before breaking down; other machines which were procured at high costs include some incubators which are also faulty, corbus blood testing machines which have never worked among others.
Recently speaking to this paper on phone, Dr Diana Atwine said that Mulago hospital lacked priority setting.
“They just do not know how to set priorities, all they do is spend money on workshops and conferences abroad yet they could use that money to buy equipment which is up to standard. Then they later complain of having little resources, but then where the accountability for the little resources, resources have never been sufficient that is the problem everywhere. Let them show us what they have done with the little they get from government” she said
Apparently Mulago is directed by Dr Byarugaba Baterana a man who served as deputy director under Ddumba’s four years tenure. More still Dr Birabwa Male the deputy director was for long the head of department pediatrics surgery even during the last regime.
According to a reliable source in the hospital administration, some administrators only changed posts but never went out of the hospital.
When asked if the current administration is ready for any investigations the hospital spokes man expressed his readiness.
“An investigation does not need one to be ready to be investigated, it is like a court hearing, you wait for the investigator to declare you either innocent or guilty but what I know and stress is that is the previous administration to pin against any mischief not the current one” he said.