First Lady calls for preventive health care
Jul 29, 2007
UGANDANS continue to die due to poor sanitation, nutrition, personal hygiene and housing, the First Lady, Janet Museveni, has said.
By Carol Natukunda
UGANDANS continue to die due to poor sanitation, nutrition, personal hygiene and housing, the First Lady, Janet Museveni, has said.
Speaking at celebrations to mark the Kasambira community health day in Buzaaya county, Kamuli district recently, Mrs. Museveni appealed to Ugandans to focus on preventive rather than curative measures.
According to a statement from State House, Mrs. Museveni also advised the locals to work hard and eradicate household poverty, saying a poor population was more vulnerable to disease.
She encouraged them to engage in modern agricultural practices to improve their incomes and fight hunger.
The First Lady expressed disappointment that Africans were afflicted by hunger and famine despite their good climate and fertile soil.
She thanked the residents for supporting the NRM in the recent elections for LC5 chairpersons.
Mrs. Museveni urged them to continue working for unity and development for their area.
She also commissioned Kasambira town community hall, which was built by a Christian charity led by Janet Robinson.
The deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, who is also the Kamuli Woman MP, said the high fertility rate of women had made them more vulnerable to maternal mortality. She called for increased sensitisation on family planning.
Kadaga also requested Mrs. Museveni to help the district open a branch of the Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) in the area.
The state minister for regional co-operation, Isaac Musumba, said the residents had invited Mrs. Museveni to the celebrations because of her health advocacy activities.
He noted that the major challenge to the area was household poverty, adding that emancipation of the locals would entail implementing the Bonna Baggaggawale (prosperity- for-all) programme.
UGANDANS continue to die due to poor sanitation, nutrition, personal hygiene and housing, the First Lady, Janet Museveni, has said.
Speaking at celebrations to mark the Kasambira community health day in Buzaaya county, Kamuli district recently, Mrs. Museveni appealed to Ugandans to focus on preventive rather than curative measures.
According to a statement from State House, Mrs. Museveni also advised the locals to work hard and eradicate household poverty, saying a poor population was more vulnerable to disease.
She encouraged them to engage in modern agricultural practices to improve their incomes and fight hunger.
The First Lady expressed disappointment that Africans were afflicted by hunger and famine despite their good climate and fertile soil.
She thanked the residents for supporting the NRM in the recent elections for LC5 chairpersons.
Mrs. Museveni urged them to continue working for unity and development for their area.
She also commissioned Kasambira town community hall, which was built by a Christian charity led by Janet Robinson.
The deputy Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, who is also the Kamuli Woman MP, said the high fertility rate of women had made them more vulnerable to maternal mortality. She called for increased sensitisation on family planning.
Kadaga also requested Mrs. Museveni to help the district open a branch of the Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) in the area.
The state minister for regional co-operation, Isaac Musumba, said the residents had invited Mrs. Museveni to the celebrations because of her health advocacy activities.
He noted that the major challenge to the area was household poverty, adding that emancipation of the locals would entail implementing the Bonna Baggaggawale (prosperity- for-all) programme.