Unstable power supply hindering digital health system
28th November 2024
Uganda’s digital health system launched in 2023, aims to leverage technology to improve data capture, ease report generation, track patients’ medical records and continuity of their statuses, and track medicine management right from the National Medical Stores (NMS) to health centres
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The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwine, has highlighted the challenges posed by unstable power supply to health centres. (Photo by Isaac Nuwagaba)
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Unstable electricity supply to Uganda's digital health system is a major hindrance to information and communications technology (ICT) use in the sector, health ministry permanent secretary Dr