Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says despite failed attempts to roll them out previously, they are still the highest ranking option when it comes to sensitization of the population about diseases that can be easily prevented and yet still claim thousands of lives.
Dr. Johnes Obungoloch, a Biomedical engineer and deputy dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) said the Atomic Energy Council in the Ministry of Energy can’t do anything currently even as its responsible for dealing with radioactive devices such as the X ray and CT equipment.
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng says previous surveys have shown pit latrine coverage to be higher, they were using parameters that don’t meet the requirements by the World Health Organization for one to be deemed an appropriate latrine.
The new model currently being piloted in nine districts, Dr. Teddy Chimulwa, the National Programme Officer, Adolescent Care and Treatment at the Ministry of Health says was copied from Zimbabwe where adolescents like in Uganda were testing positive for HIV but were not seeking treatment and those that were seeking treatment were skipping their doses and they therefore resolved to start using adolescents to lure colleagues into treatment and it yielded good results.
The records officers are bitter over what they describe as discrimination in the health sector. They complain that while their colleagues in hospitals have received salary enhancements, records officers have been left out. David Asimwe Sega, the President UMRHIPA, says that they have been left with no option other than resorting to the ‘obvious’ ways to demand for their rights.
“Dr. Ogwang has been caretaking the hospital but the substantive Hospital Director has been appointed. He embarks on his duties in the hospital as earlier indicated before he was given responsibility of caretaking the hospital”, he said on phone.
According to the health ministry, the vaccination posts are needed to offer services to parents who did not take their children for vaccination during the six day campaign
Dr Annet Kisakye, the Immunization Focal Person with the World Health Organisation (WHO) says that Vaccine derived Polio is a danger for a country like Uganda, because of cases that have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia and Ghana.
On Thursday, an independent commission of experts announced that wild poliovirus type 3 has been eradicated across the world. The announcement represents a historic achievement for humanity following the eradication of smallpox and wild poliovirus type 2.
She says that the corruptions cases reported at public hospitals scare away patients especially expectant mothers and end up in the hands of unqualified practitioners and traditional birth attendants which she says fruscontrates governments move of reducing mortality rates in the country.
Dr. Charles Batte a Makerere University College of Health Sciences based Health Economist says the country has gained clout because of previous success in fighting HIV/AIDS, guinea worm and coverage of immunization that to date remain a challenge to a lot of countries in Africa.
More than 250 squatters have encroached on the 47 acres of the hospital land. The encroachment has affected the hospital's plans for expansion and the construction of a regional Heart Institute in the area.
According to Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, even after the extension ended on Tuesday, they are still receiving calls from parents especially from Wakiso, Mukono and Kampala who say that they missed out on the exercise.
ur reporter in Karamoja says that several other rivers from the mountain slopes flooded disrupting the exercise, especially in Tapac sub-county on the slopes of Mt. Moroto, the home of the Tepeth community.
Dr Alfred Driwale, the Programme Manager of the Uganda Expanded Programme on Immunization-UNEPI explains that while the immunization act gives parents the responsibility to take their children for immunization between the ages of 0-5 years, they have no responsibility when it comes to national exercises.
