Authorities have said Pallisa General Hospital “is overwhelmed with self-referrals, which are creating a huge number of patients seeking treatment at the facility.”
The challenge arises amid other significant challenges burdening the 55-year-old hospital, including staffing gaps, shortages in critical supplies and inadequate staff accommodation.
Self-referral is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as when patients visit referral hospitals instead of lower-graded heal facilities irrespective of the illness.
Pallisa District Health Officer [DHO], Dr Godfrey Mulekwa, decried dozens of people flocking the general hospital despite presence of several health centre IIIs at sub-county level.
But he noted that “the influx is because of the good services.”
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