Kampala — THE Government will this financial year renovate Nakaseke Hospital.

The repairs valued at sh600m will be implemented by the health ministry under a special rehabilitation project.

The area Woman MP, Rose Namayanja, who represented Luweero Triangle state minister Nyombi Tembo during a New Year party in Nakaseke last Friday, disclosed the development.

The project will be the second rehabilitation phase of the 100-bed hospital. It will involve re-roofing and fixing of new ceilings.

The first phase, which was completed in 2006, involved overhauling the plumbing, drainage and sewerage systems at a cost of sh840m.

The hospital, which is more than 30 years old, is the only referral hospital in Nakaseke, Luweero and Nakasongola districts. It was vandalised during the NRA liberation war between 1980 and 1986.

In addition to the second phase of the rehabilitation, the hospital will receive special consideration under the Luweero-Rwenzori development programme, which is designed to develop the area.

Earlier, the medical superintendent, Dr. Emmanuel Mukunya, had complained that the hospital complex and the staff houses were in a poor state. He said the window panes were missing, the roofs were leaking, while the ceilings were hanging.

Mukunya said the staff quarters were inadequate and the hospital lacked a fence, research facilities, laundry machines, an ambulance, medical equipment and enough drugs.

He said the hospital gets only sh20m per month, which was not enough to procure drugs.