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Deputy Speaker Directs Action on District Health Chief Over Mystery Disease
By Our Reporter -
February 17, 2022 12
Deputy Speaker Anita Among has tasked the Ministry of Health to reign in on the District Health Officer (DHO), Namutumba over failure to take action following a mysterious disease that is killing children in the district.
According to the Deputy Speaker, the DHO exhibited what she termed as a laissez-faire mode of operation saying, “We do not want these kind of civil servants.”
In a plenary sitting on Thursday, 17 February 2022, Busiiki County MP, Hon Paul Akamba, raised concerns of the strange disease that is attacking children aged below 12, which causes them to become anemic.
He said over 70 children have died from the disease within the last month, adding that doctors in the district are not aware on how to tackle the problem.
“The children cough or pass out blood for two days and end up dying...
Deputy Speaker Directs Action on District Health Chief Over Mystery Disease
By Our Reporter -
February 17, 2022 12
Deputy Speaker Anita Among has tasked the Ministry of Health to reign in on the District Health Officer (DHO), Namutumba over failure to take action following a mysterious disease that is killing children in the district.
According to the Deputy Speaker, the DHO exhibited what she termed as a laissez-faire mode of operation saying, “We do not want these kind of civil servants.”
In a plenary sitting on Thursday, 17 February 2022, Busiiki County MP, Hon Paul Akamba, raised concerns of the strange disease that is attacking children aged below 12, which causes them to become anemic.
He said over 70 children have died from the disease within the last month, adding that doctors in the district are not aware on how to tackle the problem.
“The children cough or pass out blood for two days and end up dying...
