Eyewitness  News
  • Home
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
No Result
View All Result
Eyewitness  News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News
Home Latest News

CSOs Demand Explanation For Drug Destruction Amidst Shortages

March 11, 2018
in Latest News
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

By Damba Rogers.

Civil society organizations are demanding strong explanations from govt on why it continues to destroy drugs when the country goes every year with drug shortages in different health facilities.

According to the national coordinator CSBAG, Julius Mukunda, for the last four years govt has been faced with challenges of drug stock outs at health facilities, especially the tracer medicines which include anti malarials, cotrimoxale, measles vaccine, sulphadoxine, depoprovera and oral rehydration salt yet poor Ugandans continue to live with a cocktail of diseases.

Whereas this could be an effort made to protect life through the preventive risk of the health hazards that could arise, and danger created to human life from the consumption of expired drugs, the cost implication in the destruction of these drugs is extremely high and can not be overlooked. In addition to limited funding given to the national medical stores (NMS) over the years, a case in point is in FY 2015/16, the institution received UGX.5,221M out of UGX.11,163.2M budgeted for to provide the basic kit to health centre 11s.

John Mark and Sophie Kakembo Nampewo both  policy and budget specialists atCSBAG are faulting govt for not fulfilling the Maputo protocol of having a 15%health budget funding and move ahead to destroy drugs on grounds of expiries saying this is wastage of tax payers and donor money that needs to be checked.

However, the advocacy and programme officer who also doubles as the national coordinator drugs advocacy group, Kenneth Mwehonge states that its fine to destroy expired drugs but expresses worries over the magnitude at which Uganda is destroying drugs.

He further calls for better coordinated system advising that govt moves away from the current push system to a pull system to minimize expiries.

On 12 February 2018, govt through the health ministry announced plans to destroy 12,000 tonnes of expired drugs and other health supplies from 6,619health units to create space for adequate storage of medicines and other health supplies.

With this wastage, CSBAG will lead the way to petition parliament targeting the budget and health committees on the matter to ensure that drug management in the country improves.

Reports from the auditor general indicate that items worth UGX.3.590Bn remained undistributed to 649 health centres at the end of FY 2016/17, of which UGX3.278Bn was for 98 health centres that had balances of at least UGX.2M each at NMS.                                                                                       END

Previous Post

Defence Permanent Secretary closes Media Officers Training.

Next Post

MPs asked to prioritise rights of people with Albinism

Related Posts

Monitoring of Local Gov’ts Lacking-MPs
Latest News

Monitoring of Local Gov’ts Lacking-MPs

January 19, 2023
0

Inspection and monitoring of service delivery at local government level remains wanting, according to a section of Members of Parliament...

Read more
Parliament Rejects Govt Report for Lack of Quick Interventions.

Parliament Rejects Govt Report for Lack of Quick Interventions.

April 12, 2022
Opposition Call off Parliament Boycott

Opposition Call off Parliament Boycott

November 20, 2022
Aringa MP- Calls for More Funds For Yumbe Regional Hospital

Aringa MP- Calls for More Funds For Yumbe Regional Hospital

December 7, 2021
Oulanyah Rallies Agago to Take up Vaccination

Oulanyah Rallies Agago to Take up Vaccination

December 4, 2021
Health Consumers Push For Patients’ Rights Law 

Health Consumers Push For Patients’ Rights Law 

October 26, 2021
Next Post
MPs asked to prioritise rights of people with Albinism

MPs asked to prioritise rights of people with Albinism

Trump isn’t the first US President to get a North Korean invite. But he’s the first to accept.

Trump isn't the first US President to get a North Korean invite. But he's the first to accept.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Plugin Install : Widget Tab Post needs JNews - View Counter to be installed
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

February 7, 2023
UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

February 6, 2023
Speaker Among Rallies  MPs To Save

Speaker Among Rallies  MPs To Save

February 4, 2023
Provide Pro-Bono Services To Girls MP-Urges Judiciary

Provide Pro-Bono Services To Girls MP-Urges Judiciary

February 2, 2023

Recent News

D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

February 7, 2023
UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

February 6, 2023
Speaker Among Rallies  MPs To Save

Speaker Among Rallies  MPs To Save

February 4, 2023
Provide Pro-Bono Services To Girls MP-Urges Judiciary

Provide Pro-Bono Services To Girls MP-Urges Judiciary

February 2, 2023

Eyewitnessug.com is Licensed by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Under Dominion Media Limited.

Dominion Media Limited is registered by Uganda Revenue Authority.

For Advertisement Reach out to Marketing Department via.
Email: [email protected]

Contact us through our Postal Address.
P.O.BOX 21157 Kampala-Uganda.

Browse by Category

  • Agiriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Business
  • Development
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Editor's Pick
  • Education
  • Entertainment & Arts
  • Enviroment
  • Faith
  • Feature News
  • Governance
  • Health
  • International
  • Latest News
  • obituary
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Politics
  • Security
  • Social
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Tourism

Recent News

D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

D Speaker Tayebwa Launches Children’s Legislative Agenda.

February 7, 2023
UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

UWOPA Launches Five-Year Strategic Plan

February 6, 2023
  • Home

© 2021 Allrights Reserved EYEWITNESS NEWS UGANDA

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Diplomacy
  • ECONOMY
  • Agriculture
  • Faith
  • Security
  • Tourism
  • International
  • Latest News

© 2021 Allrights Reserved EYEWITNESS NEWS UGANDA

error: Content is protected !!