Timothy Eodu

He however concurred with the Auditors over the high cost of treatment for kidney disease explaining on the open market, people pay UGX400,000 to UGX500,000 per session and you need three sessions, that is UGX1.2 Million per week, that is UGX4.8Million in a month. And that is only for dialysis, you need other medications as well. So, for you to keep alive, maybe you need about UGX5 Million or so. So that is how expensive kidney disease is. “Dialysis is very expensive, extremely expensive. It is not sustainable for any one of us. If any of us got sick, you will sell all your land to be able to maintain this. It is a very expensive venture that we have gone into. In Kiruddu Hospital, instead of the UGX400,000 that has been costed here, Government has subsidised this and given us the doctors, it has the buildings, it pays for the water, so we charge UGX60,000 out of the UGX400,000 that the open market charges. But even the UGX60,000 that we are telling them to pay, because it's a repeated expenditure, very few people can afford it,” Dr. Kabugo explained. 📸COURTESY

He however concurred with the Auditors over the high cost of treatment for kidney disease explaining on the open market, people pay UGX400,000 to UGX500,000 per session and you need three sessions, that is UGX1.2 Million per week, that is UGX4.8Million in a month. And that is only for dialysis, you need other medications as well. So, for you to keep alive, maybe you need about UGX5 Million or so. So that is how expensive kidney disease is. “Dialysis is very expensive, extremely expensive. It is not sustainable for any one of us. If any of us got sick, you will sell all your land to be able to maintain this. It is a very expensive venture that we have gone into. In Kiruddu Hospital, instead of the UGX400,000 that has been costed here, Government has subsidised this and given us the doctors, it has the buildings, it pays for the water, so we charge UGX60,000 out of the UGX400,000 that the open market charges. But even the UGX60,000 that we are telling them to pay, because it's a repeated expenditure, very few people can afford it,” Dr. Kabugo explained. 📸COURTESY

The issue of alcohol is such a big thing in Karamoja. I have decided to give up for my own peace because if I continued to be strict, I would have ended up excluding almost all the patients from my theater list. Same thing with sniffing tobacco. I have given up You come smelling alcohol, I still work on you. You disappear from my theatre queue to go take a sip, I wait for you. What counts now is that you’ve come. One time I had this conversation with a postoperative patient: Him: Dr, can I continue taking alcohol now that the surgery is done? Me: No Him: Even a little? (He said this while demonstrating the size with his fingures) Me: No He left. Then a few seconds, he came back again Him: Even a cold one? Me: No He left again and came back Him: Doctor, even a warm one? Me: 😂😂😂😂😂Just go and drink, but make sure you carry your eye drop with you always, and make sure you don’t fall on the operated eye

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