HIGHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL ... - Mbarara District
HIGHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL ... - Mbarara District
HIGHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL ... - Mbarara District
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Table 3.4: Environmental Health Staff<br />
HEALTH SUB-DISTRICT<br />
(HSD)<br />
Health Inspectors Health Assistants<br />
KASHARI<br />
9 Sub-counties<br />
1 8<br />
RWAMPARA<br />
5 Sub-counties<br />
1 5<br />
MBARARA MUNICIPALITY<br />
3 Divisions<br />
2 1<br />
DISTRICT HQS 1 0<br />
3:4:3 Health Promotion and Education:<br />
This is a cross – cutting yet underlying activity to source delivery. With advert of FM Radio Stations and<br />
other Mass Media Health Promotion and Education has been intensified aimed at creating awareness in<br />
the community towards better preventive, curative, health seeking and switching behaviour and utilization<br />
of existing services.<br />
Every health workers, political and civic leader is always called to participate. For example Nutrition<br />
indicators have been improved, stunting, underweight, wasting and out right severe malnutrition has<br />
markedly reduced.<br />
3:4.4 Drugs, Drugs Inspection and Drug Shops:<br />
Essential medicines and Supplies have significantly been in stock in most of Public Health Units. The<br />
district procures drugs from Joint and National Medical Stores from the ring fenced Primary Health Care<br />
(PHC) and Credit Line funds.<br />
There is an alternative source of drugs from private owned drug shops that are regularly supervised by<br />
National Drug Authority and the <strong>District</strong> Drug Inspector.<br />
3:4.5 Vector Control Activities:<br />
The objective of these activities is to mobilize the community for Vector borne diseases control, and<br />
vector identification. Indoor residual spraying of mosquitoes is being encouraged particularly in Boarding<br />
Schools where most of the Children these days are found, however individual homesteads are also<br />
sprayed. A coordinated implementation of home based management of fever program for less than five<br />
years children has been undertaken. A total of 50,445 children have been treated by community drug<br />
distributors. 72,364 mosquito nets have been distributed. This has resulted in reduction of malaria in the<br />
said group. However lack of equipment and supplies makes it difficult to carry vector control activities.<br />
3:4:6 T.B / Leprosy Control:<br />
<strong>Mbarara</strong> <strong>District</strong> has 29 and 14 T.B treatment and diagnostic health units respectively. In a period of July<br />
2008 to March 2010 a total of 939 T.B Cases have been reported. 64% of them are males. 60% of the totals<br />
are HIV/AIDS positive. This makes case finding efficiency for <strong>Mbarara</strong> <strong>District</strong> being above 90% compared<br />
to the National of 70%. However 30% of the T.B Cases diagnosed come from neighbouring districts who<br />
often seek care from <strong>Mbarara</strong> Regional Referral Hospital. It is important to note defaulter rate is high (45%)<br />
and CB dots coverage is only 22%. T.B program is poorly funded by the district and yet the disease is on<br />
the increase.<br />
At present there are no recorded cases of leprosy, this is mainly because of stigmatisation.<br />
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