The University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) plays a great role in health care services of the country .It receives 70% of patients referred to seek medical assistance from countrywide hospitals. Most of transferred patients are Mituelle de santé subscribers.
CHUK is a public hospital with 800 employees, including 45 specialist doctors, five of who have left within a period of four months, making a total of 20 that have quit over the past four years.
Most of the specialists leaving are from departments of surgery, gynecology, and anesthetists who establish their own clinics or seek employment in private clinics.
Reasons for leaving the hospital are related to their remunerations where, IGIHE has learnt, a specialist doctor is paid Rwf 700,000 per month.
It has since been established by IGHE that specialist doctors can earn more than Rwf 1,000,000 in addition to overtime man-hours compensation in private clinics.
Doctors at CHUK work extra time as they have a great number of patients without receiving an extra motivation for the extra time.
The director of CHUK, Dr Théobald Hategekimana has told IGIHE that the departure of specialist doctors and other personnel doesn’t worry the hospital.
“Some specialist doctors are leaving .During their training, doctors sign a contract with the ministry of health, indicating that on graduation each serves four or five years in a public hospital/office after which they can go where they wish. Some of specialist doctors leaving CHUK have completed the that period having served 10 years or 15 while others are getting ready to go for retirement.,” he said.
Dr Hategekimana says that CHUK has enough doctors noting that the most important is to seek how to recruit new doctors as others leave the hospital.
He however says the hospital doesn’t find it easy getting new recruits whose capacities match those in the departure gate.
Hategekimana says some of the specialized doctors graduating in August from University of Rwanda shall be brought on board.
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