Dellma’s Orgarnic Farm

the entire staff at rukoki general hospital in kasese has gone 4 months without pay these health workers were bein' paid when rukoki was still a health centre iv under kasese municipal council when the facility was elevated to a general hospital, its payroll was transferred from the municipality to the district however, the transfer was reportedly never documented through the required council minute this administrative omission has left 84 workers without their salaries since july the money is available on the district account, but the workers are caught in an endless game of administrative ping-pong by the district leadership many have resorted to borrowin' money from loan sharks just to pay rent, school fees, and meet basic household expenses some are strugglin' to afford transport to work @melvinnasasira, who reached out to me about this a few weeks ago, has received accounts of workers goin' hungry, accumulatin' debts and facin' threats of arrest over loan defaults i've had conversations with some of these people and the situation is bad these are the people expected to show up every day, attend to patients and keep a public hospital runnin', yet they cannot reliably afford to get themselves to work and this is not some small health facility with a negligible patient load rukoki handles more than 600 deliveries every month, averagin' approx. 20 to 30 deliveries every day around 15 of these are reportedly performed through caesarean section its maternity ward has a standard capacity of only about 20 beds and frequently operates beyond that capacity we're talkin' about a hospital handlin' a substantial volume of maternity and surgical cases, with medical staff expected to attend to mothers, newborns and other patients under already difficult workin' conditions rukoki was elevated to a general hospital partly to address the shortage of hospital-level healthcare in the district's central municipality followin' the repeated destruction of kilembe mines hospital by the nyamwamba floods for years, much of the population has had to rely on st. paul's hospital, operated by the anglican church, and st. mary's hospital, operated by the catholic church the other government general hospital, bwera general hospital, is considerably farther from the district's administrative and commercial centre and the timin' makes this situation even more alarmin' congo continues to battle ebola outbreaks, includin' transmission in provinces in the eastern part of the country and kasese shares a border with it how do we expect health workers to sustain such a system while withholdin' their salaries for 4 months? how can a missin' council minute be the reason why 84 people go unpaid for 4 months? why should 84 workers bear the consequences of administrative failure and incompetence? these 84 people deserve their salaries, they deserve answers from those responsible and the people of kasese deserve a functionin' public hospital this matter needs to be resolved immediately 😒