Kabale regional referral hospital is facing a severe shortage of refrigerators for preserving the dead bodies.
The mortuary that was constructed in 1935 has only 10 slots and too small to accommodate the ever surging numbers of dead bodies.
The situation is increasingly becoming deplorable. The roofs are leaking and some people have been calling for the rehabilitation of the existing structures.
Richard Tumwesigye, the hospital administrator, says that they have been lobbying the health ministry to construct a modern mortuary, but their requests have not yet yielded positive results.
The administrator says the hospital’s budget is too strained to facilitate the rehabilitation of the existing mortuary. Kabale hospital receives only 100 million shillings annually to run all its activities.
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Syliva Baguma, the Kabale District chairman, says the condition at the morgue is unacceptable. He says the mortuary must be upgraded to meet the increasing numbers of deaths and good body preservation equipment.
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