Busia ends 10-year wait for X-ray services

For the last 10 years, residents of Busia District have had to cross to Kenya or hire an ambulance to take the sick to Mbale and Jinja Regional Referral Hospitals to access X-ray services.
 
This was after X-ray equipment at Masafu government-aided hospital which was donated by the Ministry of Health broke down and had not been replaced.
 
However, the residents’ long wait for a replacement ended on Saturday after a Shs500 million modern digital X-ray was acquired by Dabani Hospital in partnership with the Joint Medical Stores (JMS).
 
The JMS Executive Director, Dr Bildard Baguma, said…