Bishop urges govt to improve maternity care
Nov 24, 2010
THE retired bishop of Mityana Diocese, Dunstan Bukenya, has urged the Government to improve maternity care. Bukenya said this would reduce disabilities that occur in children due to delayed labour.
By Gladys Kalibbala
THE retired bishop of Mityana Diocese, Dunstan Bukenya, has urged the Government to improve maternity care. Bukenya said this would reduce disabilities that occur in children due to delayed labour.
“Let the Government put in place enough health centres to reduce on the distance covered by pregnant women,†he said.
He noted with concern that polio, which in the past years caused a lot of disabilities in children, had resurfaced, and urged parents to take their children for immunisation.
Watching a play presented by disabled children, Bukenya noted that disability was not inability, and asked parents to stop denying their disabled children education.
The bishop was attending the Disabled and Vulnerable Children’s Day celebrations at the Kireka Home for the Mentally Handicapped over the weekend.
The home, which was established in 1983, is currently a Universal Primary Education school for children with disabilities.
The head teacher, Ronah Nangoma, explained that the mixed school, with 66 pupils, addresses the needs of children aged between six and 18 years with learning difficulties and disabilities ranging from mild to serious.
She, however, revealed that the school lacked enough teachers because of the sealing policy.
The policy is a government initiative to control the number of teachers per school.
Nangoma explained that in a special needs school like Kireka, each child required individual lesson plans and more attention.
THE retired bishop of Mityana Diocese, Dunstan Bukenya, has urged the Government to improve maternity care. Bukenya said this would reduce disabilities that occur in children due to delayed labour.
“Let the Government put in place enough health centres to reduce on the distance covered by pregnant women,†he said.
He noted with concern that polio, which in the past years caused a lot of disabilities in children, had resurfaced, and urged parents to take their children for immunisation.
Watching a play presented by disabled children, Bukenya noted that disability was not inability, and asked parents to stop denying their disabled children education.
The bishop was attending the Disabled and Vulnerable Children’s Day celebrations at the Kireka Home for the Mentally Handicapped over the weekend.
The home, which was established in 1983, is currently a Universal Primary Education school for children with disabilities.
The head teacher, Ronah Nangoma, explained that the mixed school, with 66 pupils, addresses the needs of children aged between six and 18 years with learning difficulties and disabilities ranging from mild to serious.
She, however, revealed that the school lacked enough teachers because of the sealing policy.
The policy is a government initiative to control the number of teachers per school.
Nangoma explained that in a special needs school like Kireka, each child required individual lesson plans and more attention.