The vehicle registration number UBJ 625 X overturned when one of its front tires burst and forced it to swerve off the road. By the time of filing this report, medical supplies were strewn across the road from where responders were collecting and repackaging them.
The Ministry had set out to have vaccinated all the targeted 22million people by end of March, but Kyabayinze says they are still struggling to have half of those fully vaccinated and therefore they cannot start enforcing punitive vaccination mandates.
NMS General Manager Moses Kamabare says they were asked by the Ministry of Health to put everything else on hold to distribute COVID-19 and Polio vaccines in preparation for the ongoing mass immunization.
Without specifying amounts, Dr Diana Atwine, the MOH permanent Secretary told an emergency meeting called by Prime Minister Robina Nabbanja that at the time of depositing the money to the two procurement entities they had thought they would use money promised by the World Bank which has not yet come through.
According to lawyers and health rights activists that URN spoke, vacciantion mandates that require all members of staff or visitors at the Ministry of Health or the National Medical Stores are illegal. The lawyers say no law or statutory instrument has been issued on vaccination which makes it illegal for government entities to victimize unvaccinated staff or visitors
Daudi Okeny, a resident of the neighbouring Paicho Sub-County, said that he sought treatment for his child at Cwero Health Centre III after Paicho Health Centre III reported a stockout of drugs but he was equally disappointed that there were no malaria drugs.
Alfred Okello, the in-charge of case management attached to St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor says that shortage of PPE in the facility is overstretching their capacity after activating the treatment Centre.
