Kampala, August 1, 2023 – The Ugandan Ministry of Well being immediately acquired from the World Well being Group (WHO) and the Korea Worldwide Cooperation Company (KOICA) a bundle of medical tools designed to enhance reproductive, maternal, new child, baby, and adolescent well being (RMNCAH) service supply in 5 districts of the Busoga sub-region.
With funding from KOICA by WHO, the medical tools price 1.5 million United States {Dollars} is meant to equip 30 well being amenities within the focused districts of Bugiri, Buyende, Kamuli, Iganga, and Mayuge. The tools consists of 30 photo voltaic lighting techniques, 30 photo voltaic vaccine fridges and water pack freezers, 90 range high sterilizers, 90 resuscitators for grownup, baby, and neonatal units, 90 regular supply units, 90 digital child scales, 90 toddler weighing scales, 90 Supply Beds, 90 Wheelchairs, 90 Examination Beds and 90 Oxygen Concentrators.
“I welcome the assist of the Authorities of the Republic of Korea and the folks of Korea, KOICA, and WHO in procuring this important medical tools, as they’ll strengthen our effort to finish preventable maternal, new child, baby, and adolescent deaths within the nation,” mentioned Hon. Margaret Muhanga, the Uganda’s Minister of State for Well being answerable for Main Well being Care.
Echoing the identical appreciation, Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO Consultant to Uganda mentioned that “the availability of those medical provides is consistent with our imaginative and prescient to enhance the nation’s well being system to fulfill the necessity of its inhabitants.” He expressed gratitude for the partnership with the Republic of Korea, KOICA, and the Ugandan authorities as he underlined WHO’s dedication to supporting Uganda’s well being system.
His Excellency, Park Sung-Soo, the Korean Ambassador in Uganda, reiterated his authorities’s dedication to supporting Uganda’s well being sector noting that “by KOICA, the Authorities of Korea is dedicated to contributing to the achievement of the Ministry of Well being’s imaginative and prescient of ending preventable maternal new-born, baby, and adolescent deaths by bettering the well being infrastructure, supporting capability constructing of well being staff and enhancing college well being.”
The consignment of medical tools being handed over immediately has been procured below the challenge – Well being System Strengthening for Enhancing RMNCAH service supply. The challenge has been applied since 2020 in 5 districts of the Busoga sub-region together with Bugiri, Buyende, Iganga, Kamuli, and Mayuge.
Underneath this challenge, WHO and KOICA procured seven ambulances which have improved the referrals of sufferers. Working with the Ministry of Well being, they’ve additionally constructed the capacities of over 1500 well being staff to supply high quality reproductive, maternal, neonatal, baby, and adolescent well being companies.
Transferring ahead, the Authorities of Korea by KOICA and WHO will embark on the refurbishment of 30 well being amenities by renovating some sections, bettering water harvesting techniques, and putting in motorized boreholes.
