According to Muganga only the most vulnerable groups of people in the country including front-line Health Workers and other public servants, school children, districts bordering DR Congo and South Sudan, commercial sex workers, Boda Bodas will benefit from the vaccines.
Dr. Patricia Alesi Munduru, in charge of the Maternal and Neonatal Ward unit at the facility, says that the equipment donated will go a long way in ensuring optimal care is offered to premature babies taken to the ward.
Margaret Abura, the head teacher of Lotome Girls Primary School, mentioned that the school has children under the age of five, and they are struggling to cater to them. Abura explained that these younger children are often mixed with those above six years old, which disrupts the learning process.
Speaking at the launch and dissemination workshop of the second National Strategy to end Child Marriages and Teenage Pregnancies (NSCMTP) in Entebbe, Vedasto Nsanzungwanko, the Chief of the section of Child Protection, said that at a national level, 34% of the marriages had females who were married off before clocking eighteen
