The Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC Central) have commended Lira Regional Referral Hospital (LRRH) for high budget performance, with absorption rate standing at 97% and provison of enhanced quality health care to the citizens.
In the financial year 2024/2025, Parliament allocated shillings 18B to Lira Regional Referral Hospital which has 456 bed capacity and serves 10 districts with a population of 2.6 Million people.
LRRH top management led by Hospital Director Dr. Andrew Odur who is also the Accounting Officer, appeared before the PAC Commitee on Thursday 19th March, 2026 chaired by Hon.Gorreth Namugga to respond to queries raised by Auditor General for 2024/2025 financial year.
Hon Namugga says it’s commendable that LRRH is meeting all its statutory obligations and ensuring high budget absorption of 97%.
“Director and your team, I want to commend Lira Regional Referral Hospital for this high budget absorption rate, meeting all statutory obligations is important，you are doing well at 97%, next time ，I want you to improve and be at 100%” says Hon.Namugga.
PAC Members were also happy with the hospital leadership best practices which increased quality health care services provision to the citizenry.
“In other places, there is alot of corruption, people told us there are no free services including delivery, but I want to thank you for offering free services to our people, remarked committee chair Hon Namugga.
The committee also applauded the Hospital for increasing its revenue collection through the private wing service which nearly doubled in one year, from shillings 335M to 650M significantly contributing to the consolidated account.
The Hospital Director Dr Andrew Odur while appearing to the committee requested Parliament to increase funds to the Hospital to construct a complex structure to address the ever increasing patient number.
Dr Odur also informed Parliament about the Hospital’s strategic plans which include; increasing the Intensive care unit bed capacity from the current 3 to 10, procuring more five dialysis machine inorder to increase it to 10 from the current 5,increasing neonatal unit bed capacity from 30 to 60, constructing new storage capacity amongst others.
