The hospital which uses the post-paid electricity metre, budgets for 10 million shillings for electricity every month. However, only shillings 2 million is approved.
The Minister was responding to concerns about the closure of several screening points at Uganda DR Congo border, amidst an on-going Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The disease has so far claimed close to 2240 lives, according to the World Health Organisation.
The construction of a Perimeter Wall around its premises blocked the water path to nearby swamps, and as a result, the diverted runoff flows into a community well which serves a population of about 2,000 residents, according to the village chairperson Vincent Ssenyendera.
The victims say the war has greatly affected their social lives, even more than a decade after guns fell silent with majority citing trauma as the biggest challenges they continue to battle.