The Mayor for Kira Municipality
Julius Mutebi has requested the Ministry of Health to upgrade the municipality
health center III to health center IV.
Speaking at the World Health Day
held at Kira Municipal grounds, Mutebi noted that a population of 400,000 have
no any medical officer and receiving limited medicines hence calling for the elevation
of health centre lV as they think of a hospital.
According to him, they have already
secured a piece of land that could be used for building a hospital for the Municipality.
However, Mutebi urges the ministry
to also help in sensitizing the communities in Kira Municipality to control
health problems among the public like self medication,need for testing and
exercising and many more.
Meanwhile, the LC5 chairman Wakiso
district, Matia Lwanga Bwanika took up the chance to ask the health minister to
have more hospitals constructed in the district to cater for the current 3m
growing population which is handled by Entebbe grade A hospital.
Still, His Excellency
the Belgium Ambassador in Uganda Hugo Verbis has asked Ugandan government to
explore ways of implementing sustainable health care financing mechanism
aimed at reducing reliance on external funding and increasing domestic
financing for better health.
Speaking at the World
Health day celebrations at Kira Municipality grounds, Verbis says that also
prioritize adopting National Health Scheme to address universal health for all.
On the same note the
World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Dr. Yonas Tegegn Woldemanam has
called for government through the ministry of health to strengthen primary
health care services among its public.
He says good health cannot
be achieved by building big hospitals but by extending primary health care to
all the communities and emphasizing health preventive measures to keep
all Ugandans healthy.
However, the health
minister Jane Ruth Aceng assures the nation and development partners of full
committement by govt to attain universal health coverage through a malt
sectoral approach which will highly be funded by govt with less donor
dependence.
The day has been commemorated
under the theme “Multisectoral action for improved Health in Uganda”.
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