The CSSC expert in Arusha, Ms Pauline Kimollo, said patients spend a shorter time at dispensaries, health centres and hospitals currently applying the technology, as were the case before.
Ms Kimollo was speaking at a telemedicine stock taking meeting for CSSC members and civil servants from across Mwanza region.
She said ICT application at the health facilities had also prevented unscrupulous health workers from tampering with receipt books for their own self gains.
"Some health workers used to print their own receipt books in addition to those printed by the hospital. They used the receipt books for collecting revenue for the hospital and for themselves as well," she said.
Such embezzlement was controlled after ICT was incorporated at the hospital, leading to the hospital accruing sufficient fund for improving health services," she explained.
Mwanza based expert with the CSSC, Mr Deogratius Katonyera, said ICT usage at health facilities in Mwanza region was well received, as dispensaries, health centres and hospitals were applying for the services.
SCCS began incorporating ICT at eight health facilities but now both private and those owned by the government and religious institutions were increasingly applying for the service.
While Nyamagana District Hospital was connected with the ICT services, other public health facilities at Buzuruga, Igoma, Sangabuye, Karume and Makongoro are expected to be automated next calendar year, he said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Paulina David
Quelle/Source: The Citizen Daily, 22.12.2009
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