Mr. Simon Kityo the father of the deceased said he got his daughter with drugs at home but when they rushed her to hospital she died within ten minutes after arrival.
Agago District lies in one of the areas in northern Uganda that are struggling with intergenerational trauma from years of civil war, refugee migration, and child abductions orchestrated by the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army-LRA.
Michael Lakony, the Amuru LCV Chairperson says that the FMD was first reported in the area mid-last month but has been multiplying due to the lack of response to contain it.
Mr. Jino Meri, the district chairperson of Kaabong, said such statements by a minister demoralize other well-wishers who may need to support the famine-stricken region. The Nabilatuk district chairperson Paul Lokol says for them they are appealing to NUP for more food.
The Tracking Universal Health Coverage in the WHO African Region 2022 report released on Thursday shows healthy life expectancy or the number of years an individual is in a good state of health increased to 56 years in 2019, compared with 46 in 2000.
The tool called Self-Regulatory Quality Improvement System (SQIS) has a checklist of key areas including the cadre of health workers employed, the infrastructure in a certain facility and how often they are serviced, customer care, records keeping in addition to management among others.
