QECH OWES SUPPLIERS K 350M AND K 140M TO BWB

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), one of the Malawi’s referral health facility, owes suppliers K359 million with unpaid water bill amounting to K140 million, Dedza East Parliamentarian said.

Contributing to debate on the 2014/15 national budget, Juliana Lunguzi, who is also the chairperson of Parliamentary Health Committee, told the House that most health facilities lacks basic necessities like electricity, running water, protective wear due to inadequate funding.

The total budget allocation to the health sector in national budget under scrutiny is K65.2 billion.

This includes allocations to Ministry of Health, District Councils and National AIDS Commission. While the capital budget allocation is MK14.4 billion. This is meant for the construction of staff houses and health centres under Umoyo project, the construction of new hospitals in Phalombe, Nkhata Bay and Dowa Districts and other community hospitals.

But Lunguzi lobbied for more funding, saying the proposed allocation to the health is not enough.

“The budget that has been allocated will not suffice because as we speak, QECH owes suppliers MK359 million with the unpaid water bill amounting to MK140 million.

“Water is life, and hence at QECH, lack of water would be a national catastrophe,” she informed the House.

This facility, built in 1957, needs K24 million a month and K288 million annually for water bills, according to Dedza East Parliamentarian.

She therefore condemned government for “banking too much” on donors when it comes to health sector funding.

According to her, donors can be “unpredictable” not by design but because of “our inability to sustain positive relationships with them”.

“Without water, Infection Prevention, a key principle in health care delivery, would fail resulting in infections and re-infections and sepsis – which is very expensive to manage and often results in death.

“The water pipes at QECH have outlived their usefulness. So while we prioritize 800 percent budget increase allocation to State Residences, spiced with subsidies for malata and cement, we are incubating a man-made crisis at QECH.

“This sad state of affairs is the same at KCH, Rumphi and Dowa and other district hospitals which were built long time ago,” she explained.

Lunguzi then urged the current administration not cross path with donors responsible for procuring the country’s drugs.

“What I would love to see therefore, and to hear, is a pledge that the Executive will behave in a manner that ensures that donors will not be placed in a position to desert us again, especially now that the Executive, in as far as the supply and availability of drugs is concerned, has put all eggs in one basket,” she asserted.

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), one of the Malawi’s referral health facility, owes suppliers K359 million with unpaid water bill amounting to K140 million, Dedza East Parliamentarian said.

Contributing to debate on the 2014/15 national budget, Juliana Lunguzi, who is also the chairperson of Parliamentary Health Committee, told the House that most health facilities lacks basic necessities like electricity, running water, protective wear due to inadequate funding.

The total budget allocation to the health sector in national budget under scrutiny is K65.2 billion.

This includes allocations to Ministry of Health, District Councils and National AIDS Commission. While the capital budget allocation is MK14.4 billion. This is meant for the construction of staff houses and health centres under Umoyo project, the construction of new hospitals in Phalombe, Nkhata Bay and Dowa Districts and other community hospitals.

But Lunguzi lobbied for more funding, saying the proposed allocation to the health is not enough.

“The budget that has been allocated will not suffice because as we speak, QECH owes suppliers MK359 million with the unpaid water bill amounting to MK140 million.

“Water is life, and hence at QECH, lack of water would be a national catastrophe,” she informed the House.

This facility, built in 1957, needs K24 million a month and K288 million annually for water bills, according to Dedza East Parliamentarian.

She therefore condemned government for “banking too much” on donors when it comes to health sector funding.

According to her, donors can be “unpredictable” not by design but because of “our inability to sustain positive relationships with them”.

“Without water, Infection Prevention, a key principle in health care delivery, would fail resulting in infections and re-infections and sepsis – which is very expensive to manage and often results in death.

“The water pipes at QECH have outlived their usefulness. So while we prioritize 800 percent budget increase allocation to State Residences, spiced with subsidies for malata and cement, we are incubating a man-made crisis at QECH.

“This sad state of affairs is the same at KCH, Rumphi and Dowa and other district hospitals which were built long time ago,” she explained.

Lunguzi then urged the current administration not cross path with donors responsible for procuring the country’s drugs.

“What I would love to see therefore, and to hear, is a pledge that the Executive will behave in a manner that ensures that donors will not be placed in a position to desert us again, especially now that the Executive, in as far as the supply and availability of drugs is concerned, has put all eggs in one basket,” she asserted.

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), one of the Malawi’s referral health facility, owes suppliers K359 million with unpaid water bill amounting to K140 million, Dedza East Parliamentarian said.

Contributing to debate on the 2014/15 national budget, Juliana Lunguzi, who is also the chairperson of Parliamentary Health Committee, told the House that most health facilities lacks basic necessities like electricity, running water, protective wear due to inadequate funding.

The total budget allocation to the health sector in national budget under scrutiny is K65.2 billion.

This includes allocations to Ministry of Health, District Councils and National AIDS Commission. While the capital budget allocation is MK14.4 billion. This is meant for the construction of staff houses and health centres under Umoyo project, the construction of new hospitals in Phalombe, Nkhata Bay and Dowa Districts and other community hospitals.

But Lunguzi lobbied for more funding, saying the proposed allocation to the health is not enough.

“The budget that has been allocated will not suffice because as we speak, QECH owes suppliers MK359 million with the unpaid water bill amounting to MK140 million.

“Water is life, and hence at QECH, lack of water would be a national catastrophe,” she informed the House.

This facility, built in 1957, needs K24 million a month and K288 million annually for water bills, according to Dedza East Parliamentarian.

She therefore condemned government for “banking too much” on donors when it comes to health sector funding.

According to her, donors can be “unpredictable” not by design but because of “our inability to sustain positive relationships with them”.

“Without water, Infection Prevention, a key principle in health care delivery, would fail resulting in infections and re-infections and sepsis – which is very expensive to manage and often results in death.

“The water pipes at QECH have outlived their usefulness. So while we prioritize 800 percent budget increase allocation to State Residences, spiced with subsidies for malata and cement, we are incubating a man-made crisis at QECH.

“This sad state of affairs is the same at KCH, Rumphi and Dowa and other district hospitals which were built long time ago,” she explained.

Lunguzi then urged the current administration not cross path with donors responsible for procuring the country’s drugs.

“What I would love to see therefore, and to hear, is a pledge that the Executive will behave in a manner that ensures that donors will not be placed in a position to desert us again, especially now that the Executive, in as far as the supply and availability of drugs is concerned, has put all eggs in one basket,” she asserted.

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), one of the Malawi’s referral health facility, owes suppliers K359 million with unpaid water bill amounting to K140 million, Dedza East Parliamentarian said.

Contributing to debate on the 2014/15 national budget, Juliana Lunguzi, who is also the chairperson of Parliamentary Health Committee, told the House that most health facilities lacks basic necessities like electricity, running water, protective wear due to inadequate funding.

The total budget allocation to the health sector in national budget under scrutiny is K65.2 billion.

This includes allocations to Ministry of Health, District Councils and National AIDS Commission. While the capital budget allocation is MK14.4 billion. This is meant for the construction of staff houses and health centres under Umoyo project, the construction of new hospitals in Phalombe, Nkhata Bay and Dowa Districts and other community hospitals.

But Lunguzi lobbied for more funding, saying the proposed allocation to the health is not enough.

“The budget that has been allocated will not suffice because as we speak, QECH owes suppliers MK359 million with the unpaid water bill amounting to MK140 million.

“Water is life, and hence at QECH, lack of water would be a national catastrophe,” she informed the House.

This facility, built in 1957, needs K24 million a month and K288 million annually for water bills, according to Dedza East Parliamentarian.

She therefore condemned government for “banking too much” on donors when it comes to health sector funding.

According to her, donors can be “unpredictable” not by design but because of “our inability to sustain positive relationships with them”.

“Without water, Infection Prevention, a key principle in health care delivery, would fail resulting in infections and re-infections and sepsis – which is very expensive to manage and often results in death.

“The water pipes at QECH have outlived their usefulness. So while we prioritize 800 percent budget increase allocation to State Residences, spiced with subsidies for malata and cement, we are incubating a man-made crisis at QECH.

“This sad state of affairs is the same at KCH, Rumphi and Dowa and other district hospitals which were built long time ago,” she explained.

Lunguzi then urged the current administration not cross path with donors responsible for procuring the country’s drugs.

“What I would love to see therefore, and to hear, is a pledge that the Executive will behave in a manner that ensures that donors will not be placed in a position to desert us again, especially now that the Executive, in as far as the supply and availability of drugs is concerned, has put all eggs in one basket,” she asserted.

Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), one of the Malawi’s referral health facility, owes suppliers K359 million with unpaid water bill amounting to K140 million, Dedza East Parliamentarian said.

Contributing to debate on the 2014/15 national budget, Juliana Lunguzi, who is also the chairperson of Parliamentary Health Committee, told the House that most health facilities lacks basic necessities like electricity, running water, protective wear due to inadequate funding.

The total budget allocation to the health sector in national budget under scrutiny is K65.2 billion.

This includes allocations to Ministry of Health, District Councils and National AIDS Commission. While the capital budget allocation is MK14.4 billion. This is meant for the construction of staff houses and health centres under Umoyo project, the construction of new hospitals in Phalombe, Nkhata Bay and Dowa Districts and other community hospitals.

But Lunguzi lobbied for more funding, saying the proposed allocation to the health is not enough.

“The budget that has been allocated will not suffice because as we speak, QECH owes suppliers MK359 million with the unpaid water bill amounting to MK140 million.

“Water is life, and hence at QECH, lack of water would be a national catastrophe,” she informed the House.

This facility, built in 1957, needs K24 million a month and K288 million annually for water bills, according to Dedza East Parliamentarian.

She therefore condemned government for “banking too much” on donors when it comes to health sector funding.

According to her, donors can be “unpredictable” not by design but because of “our inability to sustain positive relationships with them”.

“Without water, Infection Prevention, a key principle in health care delivery, would fail resulting in infections and re-infections and sepsis – which is very expensive to manage and often results in death.

“The water pipes at QECH have outlived their usefulness. So while we prioritize 800 percent budget increase allocation to State Residences, spiced with subsidies for malata and cement, we are incubating a man-made crisis at QECH.

“This sad state of affairs is the same at KCH, Rumphi and Dowa and other district hospitals which were built long time ago,” she explained.

Lunguzi then urged the current administration not cross path with donors responsible for procuring the country’s drugs.

“What I would love to see therefore, and to hear, is a pledge that the Executive will behave in a manner that ensures that donors will not be placed in a position to desert us again, especially now that the Executive, in as far as the supply and availability of drugs is concerned, has put all eggs in one basket,” she asserted.