Women activists demand better health services
May 31, 2011
Women rights activists last week held a peaceful demonstration demanding better health services, especially maternal care.
By Luke Kagiri
Women rights activists last week held a peaceful demonstration demanding better health services, especially maternal care.
They started with a march from Ssingo county headquarters, through the streets of Mityana town to Busimbi sub-county grounds.
The campaign was spearheaded by the International HIV/Aids Alliance, together with a Mityana-based non-governmental organisation and Nakaseeta Initiative for Adult Education.
The group met a 25-year-old pregnant woman, walking a 30km journey back from Mityana hospital to her home in Kayanja village, Maanyi sub-county.
Annet Nassali, who was coming from hospital, said she had been referred to Mulago hospital.
“They have said I am anaemic and treatment is not available here,†Nassali said. She was then carried to the ceremony ground where she was presented to the guests who fundraised for her.
About sh120,000 was raised and the district chairperson, Deborah Kinobe, offered to drive her to Mulago.
Women rights activists last week held a peaceful demonstration demanding better health services, especially maternal care.
They started with a march from Ssingo county headquarters, through the streets of Mityana town to Busimbi sub-county grounds.
The campaign was spearheaded by the International HIV/Aids Alliance, together with a Mityana-based non-governmental organisation and Nakaseeta Initiative for Adult Education.
The group met a 25-year-old pregnant woman, walking a 30km journey back from Mityana hospital to her home in Kayanja village, Maanyi sub-county.
Annet Nassali, who was coming from hospital, said she had been referred to Mulago hospital.
“They have said I am anaemic and treatment is not available here,†Nassali said. She was then carried to the ceremony ground where she was presented to the guests who fundraised for her.
About sh120,000 was raised and the district chairperson, Deborah Kinobe, offered to drive her to Mulago.