Josephat Kandege
The government has promised to upgrade Siha health
centre which is in Siha district into a full status of to a district hospital later
during the 2018/19 financial year. The promise has been issued today by the deputy
minister of State in President’s office responsible for local government and
regional administration Josephat Kandege when responding a question this week in
parliament and said that, the government has set aside Tshs. 1.5 bn/- to be
used for the modernization and upgrading. He said it is a primary responsibility
of the government to ensure that, it upgrades all health centres into the
district hospitals, and likewise a district hospital tom be given the status of
being a referral hospital respectively, and this depends on the number of patients being attended. The deputy
minister was responding a question earlier raised by the special seat
legislator Esther Michael Masi (CCM) who wanted to know plans by the government
to upgrade Siha heath centre into a district hospital.
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