Kampala — BUGIRI Hospital administrators have rejected an appeal to offer district councillors special services.

The councillors recently asked the hospital management to offer them special services instead of them queuing up with other patients for treatment.

In a recent meeting, Sigulu Island sub-county councillor Abbot Ouma asked the council to pass a motion to enable councillors and their children get special services from the hospital.

"We should be treated in a special way because members of the public refer to us as honourable," he said.

However, during a meeting with the hospital management on Monday, the district health officer, Dr. Stephen Kiirya, advised the councillors to seek special services from private clinics.

He stressed that the hospital is a public institution and that all people should be treated equally regardless of their political or economic status.

On service delivery, Bugiri resident district commissioner Margaret Mwanamoiza cautioned doctors against reporting for duty late.

"I have fallen a victim myself when I came here five times for treatment after 5:00pm and found no doctor to handle patients in the evening shift," she said.

She said most doctors are at their private clinics in the evening.

Mwanamoiza appealed to the hospital management to address the administrative problems at the hospital so as to improve service delivery.

President Yoweri Museveni, during a visit to the area earlier this year, ordered the resident district commissioner to investigate the problems at the hospital and prepare a report on the matter.