Soroti university has donated assortment of medical equipment and consumables to Soroti regional referral hospital as part of their efforts to equip and support the hospital in managing patients and providing adequate learning material for the students.
The equipment and supplies worth over Two hundred million shillings included delivery sets, foetal doppler easy-care, patient transportation trolleys, Laparotomy, Nebulizer machine, Microhematocrit centrifuge with inbuilt reader, ECG Machine., ECG, (Electrocardiogram) machine is a medical device used to measure and record the electrical activity of the heart. It is a non-invasive test that provides valuable information about the heart’s function and can help diagnose various heart-related conditions. Haemocue 301. Others are patient monitor resuscitator infant, children and adults, Speculum vaginal Cusco, small, medium and large, Kidney dish stainless steel, bone marrow set-biopsy among others.
ECG machine, used for measuring and recording the electrical activity of the heart.
Soroti university is using the referral hospital as the teaching hospital for the medical courses. Handing over the equipment to the hospital, Akello Safina, Lecturer midwifery on behalf of the university said their decision was formed by the needs assessment carried out. She added that the university management is committed to support the hospital whenever resources are available.
One of the trolleys donated by the university.
The Senior Executive Consultant, Soroti Regional Referral hospital Dr. Watmon Benedict praised the university for the donation and pledged to put the equipment to good use to support the patient care and student doctors during teaching and learning sessions in the hospital.