Moroto regional referral hospital has been sighted as one of the referral hospitals in the country that has failed to account for part of the funds dispatched by government.

This is contained in the auditor general’s report for the financial year 2021/2022 which says the officials have failed to account for 29.9 million shillings.

The report also points out that Moroto regional referral hospital had 2.2billion shillings off-budget financing and out of this, only 1.7 billion was spent, living 565.4million shillings unspent.

Others include Hoima regional referral hospital which has failed to account for 58.8 million, Lira regional referral hospital 35 million shillings.

According to the auditor general’s report 2022, this has been attributed to failure by managements to appraise and enforce internal controls, regarding accountability for funds for funds advanced for micro-projects activities.

Jim Mugunga, the spokesperson of the finance ministry says unfortunately, they cannot do anything to force the accounting officers to either refund or provide accountability of these funds.

Mugunga adds that it is only parliament that can reign on these accounting officers who have failed to account for the funds under questions.