Close to 300 patients have already accessed free health services at The New Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital (MSWNH) since its opening 10 days ago.

Enock Kusasira, the Public Relations Officer of Mulago Hospital, says that the dire need for these specialised services coupled with the fact that services are free of charge in a new hospital justifies the huge turn up. "By 9th October, we will have received close to a thousand patients," Kusasira added in a conversation with our reporter today.

Two mothers have expressed mixed feelings about the proposed costs of accessing medical care at the newly refurbished Mulago Specialised Maternal and Neonatal Hospital.

While one woman expresses concern saying the new costs are prohibitive for low income earners, another one is excited she will return to the government facility.

The national referral hospital reopened on September 17th after renovations which cost of 96 billion Shillings.

The number of women seeking for services at the newly refurbished Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital has been increasing over the days since the opening ten days ago.

According to Enoch Kusasira, the public relations officer Mulago Referral Hospital, there has been a steady increase in the number of patients received at the facility. “The facility has since 17^thSeptember 2018 registered a ten to twenty percent increase each day in the number of patients seeking for services,” said Kusasira.

KAMPALA – The Minister of Health, Dr Ruth Jane Aceng, has said patients seeking treatment at the new Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital will pay Shs50,000 as doctor’s consultation fees while those seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) will pay Shs13 million.

Yesterday, I confirmed what I have always heard about Mulago Hospital. It was my first time to step there, but what I found was quite sickening: the place looked so awful. As I walked around, I bumped into
a rubbish area; my heart is even about to pop out as I type this as the memory of it is just nauseating.

Spills of blood, used cotton and used syringes litter the place, oh, how stinked! Then I entered some building, not sure if it’s the new Mulago, in the tunnel that led me to Block 4C oh my God; the place is terribly smelly!