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Health facilities and individuals in the Greater Masaka Sub-region are in panic after the breakdown of the main oxygen plant at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.

The hospital has two oxygen plants that provide oxygen to both the facility and other health centres in the region.

Due to this breakdown, private health facilities in Masaka, which had been purchasing oxygen at subsidized rates from the referral hospital, are now forced to obtain oxygen from Kampala at nearly double the cost.

In an interview at the weekend, Mr Charles Tumushiime, the Masaka Regional Referral Hospital principal administrator, said one of the oxygen plants recently broke down causing a deficit in the supply of oxygen in the region.

“We have a challenge of break-downs of the plants and when they are both down at the same time, we have to hire a truck at a cost of at least Shs1m every week to transport bulky oxygen cylinders from Kampala, which is costly,” he said.

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