Joseph Mugisa
9 July 2009
Fort Portal — Lack of staff at the Fort Portal Region Joint Clinical Research Centre has hindered service delivery, according to officials.
Ms Edith Birikwija, the JCRC regional adherence officer, said many patients do not get the help they expect from the centre because the centre is understaffed. "We are a small staff at the JCRC yet the turn up per day is too big," she said.
Daily Monitor learnt from the staff that one counsellor at the centre is supposed to attend to over 300 patients. But because of the turn up, less than 50 are attended to. Ms Birikwija was briefing workers of Barclays Bank, Fort Portal Branch who had gone to the centre to donate an assortment of items to children living with HIV/Aids recently.
Another JCRC source who did not want to be quoted because of not being the spokes person of the centre attributed the big turn up to stigma. The source said so many people still don't want to be identified as HIV/Aids victims and were as a result shunning their centres to go the regional one.
JCRC is a centre for Aids care, treatment, research and training, founded at the height of the Aids crisis in Uganda.
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