{Mituelle de Sante program\u2019s failure to pay a staggering Rwf 400 million to Gahini Hospital, is throttling its operations and the capacity of delivering medical services to members of the public. By extension, families of medical workers at the hospital are feeling the pinch since there\u2019s lack of adequate finances for timely payment of their salaries. At times the hospital fails to meet water and energy bills. And at times the hospital runs out drugs. } <\/p>\n
Despite the fact that the matter has been taken to various levels of Kayonza district authority, all has been in vain.<\/p>\n
The director of Gahini Hospital, Dr Muvunyi Alphonse, says that the debt accumulated is having serious negative repercussions to the hospital and the public. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past thirteen months, we have received payments for only 4 months. We are incapacitated. We need to pay employees, pay water and electricity bills among other operations. The debt we are referring to was accumulated before Rwanda Social Security Board took its management, \u201che says. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe problems we have are beyond our capacity. Despite the inadequate number of nurses at the hospital, there is also a problem of retaining them on the job. This is a big challenge. Specialists hired from abroad do not last long live since the hospital cannot maintain them,\u201d Dr Muvunyi explains. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe only nurses with one to three years of experience working at the hospital. These nurses are young graduates who don\u2019t stay for long at this hospital since it is in rural location, so they opt to look for other jobs in cities and towns with better salaries or leave for further studies,\u201d he belabors. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have 10 permanent nurses but they are not enough compared to the number of patients coming to this hospital. Only one instead of three nurses stays overnight,\u201d adds Dr Muvunyi.<\/p>\n
During the handing over ceremony of the management of mituelle de sant\u00e9 to RSSB, the permanent secretary in MINISANTE, Dr Solange Hakiba promised that they were to seek solution and find a way of paying off the debt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeking all ways of getting funds to settle the debt of Rwf 13 billion. We don\u2019t wish to inherit debts to RSSB,\u201d she said. The research conducted by the Ministry of Local Government across the country indicated that mituelle de sant\u00e9 owes over Rwf13 billion to hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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