Local leader letters
Jul 21, 2010
<b>Blame clergy for high population</b> <br>RELIGIOUS leaders who discourage people from using family planning and politicians who urge them to produce many children are largely to blame for the high maternal and child mortality rate.
Blame clergy for high population
RELIGIOUS leaders who discourage people from using family planning and politicians who urge them to produce many children are largely to blame for the high maternal and child mortality rate.
Some of these people do not give the people the information about child spacing and the need to have children one can give a decent life.
They take advantage of people’s ignorance to enrich themselves. They know if a poor woman produces 15 children whom she cannot look after, they will benefit by getting housegirls and shamba boys they can hire and underpay. How come such leaders do not produce many children?
To all of you who urge women to produce until they drop dead, know that God gave you the duty and forum to give people information and save them from death and poverty but you are using this selfishly.
For every child that dies of a preventable disease because of poverty, you will answer before God.
Jeninah Nabukalu,
Ntinda
Shame on our MPs
I read an article in The New Vision on Tuesday where minister Gabriel Opio, told delegates at the AU Summit that Uganda has no money to increase the health budget. How ridiculous! How come MPs are giving themselves big salaries, and expensive vehicles? Where does all this money come from? There is no money only when the poor woman and child are dying on the floor of Mulago Hospital, but there is enough to fly a minister and MP out for treatment! Shame on you African leaders!
Belinda Bakyawa, Mutungo
There is money but no will
Does minister Opio think anybody will believe that Uganda will not increase the health budget because there is no money? Ugandans know the money is there; what is lacking is the will.
A healthy population is, perhaps, not a priority for now. But the minister should know soon, he will need a healthy electorate to go to the polls, come 2011. Time will tell.
Patricia Kabaliisa,
Kampala
Stay away from free things
Ugandans should learn to take charge of their lives. Many people are stuck with the mentality of free things. That is why an adult Ugandan will wake up in the morning, do nothing but move from office to office visiting friends, go back home to sleep and produce children. Without paying taxes, he will expect the Government to educate his children and give his family free medical care. The Government cannot afford to give citizens unemployment benefits.
Tom Ssenkumba,
Luzira
RELIGIOUS leaders who discourage people from using family planning and politicians who urge them to produce many children are largely to blame for the high maternal and child mortality rate.
Some of these people do not give the people the information about child spacing and the need to have children one can give a decent life.
They take advantage of people’s ignorance to enrich themselves. They know if a poor woman produces 15 children whom she cannot look after, they will benefit by getting housegirls and shamba boys they can hire and underpay. How come such leaders do not produce many children?
To all of you who urge women to produce until they drop dead, know that God gave you the duty and forum to give people information and save them from death and poverty but you are using this selfishly.
For every child that dies of a preventable disease because of poverty, you will answer before God.
Jeninah Nabukalu,
Ntinda
Shame on our MPs
I read an article in The New Vision on Tuesday where minister Gabriel Opio, told delegates at the AU Summit that Uganda has no money to increase the health budget. How ridiculous! How come MPs are giving themselves big salaries, and expensive vehicles? Where does all this money come from? There is no money only when the poor woman and child are dying on the floor of Mulago Hospital, but there is enough to fly a minister and MP out for treatment! Shame on you African leaders!
Belinda Bakyawa, Mutungo
There is money but no will
Does minister Opio think anybody will believe that Uganda will not increase the health budget because there is no money? Ugandans know the money is there; what is lacking is the will.
A healthy population is, perhaps, not a priority for now. But the minister should know soon, he will need a healthy electorate to go to the polls, come 2011. Time will tell.
Patricia Kabaliisa,
Kampala
Stay away from free things
Ugandans should learn to take charge of their lives. Many people are stuck with the mentality of free things. That is why an adult Ugandan will wake up in the morning, do nothing but move from office to office visiting friends, go back home to sleep and produce children. Without paying taxes, he will expect the Government to educate his children and give his family free medical care. The Government cannot afford to give citizens unemployment benefits.
Tom Ssenkumba,
Luzira