Uganda: Soroti Hospital Staff Shortage Leaves Nurses Attending to More Than 50 Patients

Uganda: Soroti Hospital Staff Shortage Leaves Nurses Attending to More Than 50 Patients

[Independent (Kampala)] Soroti -- Exhausted health workers at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital are being forced to stretch across shifts and attend to dozens of patients at a time, with severe understaffing increasingly affecting their responsiveness and interaction with patients, Parliament has heard.

Soroti Hospital staff shortage leaves nurses attending to more than 50 patients

Soroti, Uganda | URN | Exhausted health workers at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital are being forced to stretch across shifts and attend to dozens of patients at a time, with severe understaffing increasingly affecting their responsiveness and interaction with patients, Parliament has heard. Dennis Katinda, the hospital’s Senior Human Resource Officer, told the Parliamentary Accounts … The post Soroti Hospital staff shortage leaves nurses atten…