“I see most of the people putting out their hands for their body temperature to be taken. This is wrong. The forehead is the right body part from which the temperature reading should be taken”, says Simon Rukundo, Head of Temperature Laboratory at the UNBS.
The Area Branch Manager National Water and Sewage Cooperation for Pader, Mr Okumu Patrick, acknowledged the problems but blames it all on poor service of electricity power supply in the district.
Ms Akello Monica, a resident of Odani village in Lapul Ocwida parish, Atanga Sub-County says most parents of the nodding disease children have lost hope become less vigilant in controlling the movement of the sick children, which is why someof them are drowning in streams.
Currently, as we commemorate World Children Cancer day on 15th February 2021, the number of children diagnosed with cancer in Uganda stands at a low 30% according to Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI).
