The administration of Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has responded to a video exposing low standards at the facility where people who have tested positive for Covid-19 are accommodated.
The hospital management, however, refuted some of the allegations of poor sanitation and letting children live with adults at the coronavirus treatment centre.

The allegations were revealed in a video recorded last week by a woman who was brought to the centre after testing positive for Covid-19.

In the video that went viral, the asymptomatic patient detailed scenes of poor sanitation, letting non-Covid 19 positive children live with the positive adults at the facility and concerns about being given medication without written prescriptions.

“Doctors get here just once to drop a medication that has no name. As for me, the doctor did not explain what kind of medication this is. As a former nurse, I do not want to take medication that I do not know. There is no prescription sheet to show what we are taking,” the patient said as she showed two unlabelled packages of folded papers and a paracetamol prescription on the other.

The patient complained of the hospital pushing coronavirus patients to a dilapidated hospital structure without running water and other sanitary facilities.

She further added that the treatment centre is close to a mortuary which gives them mental distress when they see dead bodies being carried to it.