Dr Diana Atwiine, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health told URN that as restrictions are being lifted, an average of 17 people are dying every day and severe cases have been registered where 65 per cent are people of advanced age and not vaccinated.
Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng told the Lira District COVID-19 Task Force that the low capacity among frontline workers, coupled with the laxity among members of Public is an indicator that the area was ill-prepared for the catastrophe, and that this is a cause for worry, if the situation is not well handled.
Sam Opio, the Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda said even as the annual drug availability report launched on Thursday by the Medicines Transparency Alliance puts drug availability in facilities low at 36%, government cannot account for the medicines that they receive annually.
Dennis Kibira, the Coordinator of Medicines Transparency Alliance revealed that while conducting the survey they found huge price disparities for contraceptives giving an example of implants where at some facilities the commodity would go for as low as Shs3000 to be inserted and yet at another facility the same device of the same brand went to the highs of Shs20,000.
