Stakeholders say the majority of such patients are low-income earners and that asking them to buy medicines from private facilities is like condemning them to death.
When Ismail Mutebi, who has a mental disorder, visited Masaka Regional Referral Hospital last week, he wasn’t attended to as expected.
Doctors cited a reported drug stockout at the public facility.
A resident of Kirimya Trading Centre in Kimaanya Kabonera Municipality, Masaka City, Mutebi says he has consistently missed ‘special medicine’ at Ward 14.
“This shortage has lasted four months. They only prescribe the medicine, which l buy from private pharmacies outside the hospital," he says.
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