Health Workforce Education and Development, African Centre for Global Health and Social Development, Plo13B, Acacia Avenue, Kampala, Uganda.
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Pan Afr Med J. 2020 Dec 2;37:295. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.37.295.22046. eCollection 2020.
the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) relates to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and provision of quality essential health services. The Government of Uganda has operationalized this through the National Health Policy which stresses the importance of availability of functioning medical equipment in health facilities. There have been efforts by the Ministry of Health and Atomic Energy Council in Uganda to compile an inventory of imaging equipment in the country, however, this information has not been widely published. The purpose of this study was to conduct an audit of registered radiology equipment in Uganda and establish their functional status.
a cross-sectional descriptive study that involved a desktop review of the equipment registry at the Uganda Atomic Energy Council was conducted. Data was collected on a number of variables including type of equipment, location, functional status, modality and density per million people.
the audit revealed 625 pieces of equipment spread over 354 health facilities. The majority (397) were plain X-ray machines followed by dental X-ray machines at 120. There were only 3 Radiotherapy machines. Most were recorded as being functional with only 0.1% of the equipment non-functional. Most of the equipment was in the central region which has the third highest population density. The majority of the equipment belonged to private health facilities.
Uganda lags behind the WHO recommended ratio of equipment versus the population (20 per million population). Most of the equipment is the plain X-ray machine with a few more advanced technologies in both public and private health facilities.
第三个可持续发展目标（SDG）与全民健康覆盖（UHC）和提供基本医疗服务有关。乌干达政府通过国家卫生政策实现了这一目标，该政策强调了卫生设施中功能齐全的医疗设备的重要性。乌干达卫生部和原子能委员会已经努力编制了该国成像设备的清单，但这些信息尚未广泛公布。本研究的目的是对乌干达注册的放射设备进行审计，并确定其功能状态。
这是一项横断面描述性研究，涉及对乌干达原子能委员会设备登记处进行桌面审查。收集了包括设备类型、位置、功能状态、模式和每百万人密度在内的若干变量的数据。
审计显示，354 家卫生机构共配备了 625 台设备。其中大多数（397 台）是普通 X 光机，其次是牙科 X 光机（120 台）。只有 3 台放射治疗机。大多数设备被记录为功能正常，只有 0.1%的设备功能不正常。大多数设备都在人口密度第三高的中部地区。这些设备大多属于私人卫生机构。
乌干达落后于世界卫生组织建议的每百万人口设备比例（20 台）。大多数设备是普通 X 光机，公共和私人卫生机构中都有一些更先进的技术。
