Joy Biira, a Nursing Officer at Kasese Municipal Health Center III, says they have registered an increase in the number of women seeking family planning services since the lockdown started.
Some women who have already shown interest in the district politics blame the highly commercialized politics for setting unfair grounds for women that lack adequate resources to rally for support.
Rostico Akugizibwe, the in Charge Buseruka Health center III, says health officials in the sub county have embarked on a massive campaign to rally expectant mothers to deliver from health facilities.
The women say following the discovery of oil and gas in their area, local women have not been fully engaged and empowered by the government on how they can be prepared to tap in opportunities accruing from oil and gas sector something they say could make them not to benefit from the sector.
According to a statement by the United Nations, violence perpetrated against women is as common a cause of death and incapacity for those of reproductive age, as cancer, and a greater cause of ill health than road accidents and malaria combined. It adds that half of the women killed worldwide were killed by their partners or family.
Joan Kutegeka a woman dealing in salt mining says currently processing the salt is becoming difficult because of lack of firewood. She says they trek a long distance searching for firewood.
Bigirimana says that under the women entrepreneurship fund, out of the 4.2 billion shillings that were distributed, 2.7 billion shillings has been recovered.
