Rakai to get sh160m medical centre
Jan 27, 2006
JAPAN has agreed to finance the construction of Kyotera Medical Centre in Rakai district at US$90,000 (about sh160m).
By Maurice Okore
JAPAN has agreed to finance the construction of Kyotera Medical Centre in Rakai district at US$90,000 (about sh160m).
Japanese ambassador Ryuzo Kikuchi and the director of the community-based health project, Dr. Ambrose Katwire, signed the agreement yesterday at the embassy in Kampala. The work starts immediately.
Kikuchi said the money would be channelled to the project through the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), a body used to extend support to community initiatives.
Kikuchi said the funds would go towards the construction of an out- patient department, a theatre, as well as male and female and children’s wards.
“These buildings are intended to boost the quality of services the Rakai community-based health project provides to its patients and increase access and affordability of medical services to the people of Kyotera town and Rakai district at large,†Kikuchi said.
“I shall ensure that such support increases as a way of contributing to the struggle against poverty in Uganda, as specified in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan,†he said.
He said the centre would cater for over 17,000 people directly and up to 330,000 people indirectly.
Kikuchi promised that his government would continue to work towards the improvement of lives in Uganda through community- based projects.
JAPAN has agreed to finance the construction of Kyotera Medical Centre in Rakai district at US$90,000 (about sh160m).
Japanese ambassador Ryuzo Kikuchi and the director of the community-based health project, Dr. Ambrose Katwire, signed the agreement yesterday at the embassy in Kampala. The work starts immediately.
Kikuchi said the money would be channelled to the project through the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), a body used to extend support to community initiatives.
Kikuchi said the funds would go towards the construction of an out- patient department, a theatre, as well as male and female and children’s wards.
“These buildings are intended to boost the quality of services the Rakai community-based health project provides to its patients and increase access and affordability of medical services to the people of Kyotera town and Rakai district at large,†Kikuchi said.
“I shall ensure that such support increases as a way of contributing to the struggle against poverty in Uganda, as specified in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan,†he said.
He said the centre would cater for over 17,000 people directly and up to 330,000 people indirectly.
Kikuchi promised that his government would continue to work towards the improvement of lives in Uganda through community- based projects.