The Fota District Hospital (French: Hôpital de District Fota) is a hospital in Mwaro Province, Burundi.
Location
The Fota Hospital is a public district hospital in the Fota Health District serving a population of 161,667 as of 2014.[1]
It is in the city of Fota.
As of 2016 it was the only hospital in the district.[2]
Events
In November 2020 staff at the hospital complained that the managers were embezzling funds.
For example, a supposedly new refrigerator had been bought for three times its market price, and only worked a few days.
It was a simple household refrigerator that did not meet WHO standards.
As a result, medicines that had to be kept frozen or cold were deteriorating.[3]
In February 2021 the director of Fota Hospital was again accused of embezzling funds.
A large amount of money was collected by withholding the staff incentive bonuses.
They were informed that this had been approved by the Ministry of health.
It was said to be for use in building a fence, but after more than six months the work had not started.[4]
