The Ministry of Health has said it will no longer accept to treat patients who just walk into regional referral hospitals without referral letters from lower health facilities (see Daily Monitor, April 27). According to Dr Anthony Mbonye, the director general of health services, patients who are not referred are causing confusion at referral hospitals and are clogging the entire healthcare system.
Ideally, a national or regional referral hospital is meant to handle especially complicated or critical illnesses. However, this is not what pertains in the country's healthcare system.
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