Our healthcare let Mungherera, many others down
What you need to know:
- Our attention span is like that of a warthog. No one is talking about the radiotherapy bunker, the new radiotherapy machines, and cancer drugs that have been in short supply. How can we campaign for change if we cannot sustain the campaign? It is only when someone prominent dies that we start lamenting again?
Margaret Mungherera succumbed to a long battle against cancer and died in a hospital in India. Ugandans and the world received this horrible news on February 4.
She, like many other Ugandans, died at a hospital in India because our healthcare system could not provide the care that she needed! Shame on Uganda.
That Uganda finds Shs6 billion to ‘award’ already highly paid civil servants and consultants for doing a job that they were paid to do, but cannot find resources to ensure medicare to fight cancer is obnoxiously vulgar. Shame on Uganda.
For every single high level government of Uganda official who will be allowed to speak at Dr Mungherera’s funeral, shame them.
For every single politician at central government level, especially Members of Parliament, who are allowed to speak at Dr Mungherera’s funeral, shame them. After all, they prioritised vehicles over human life.
Norah Owaraga,
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How very sad indeed! It is even sadder that she died in India among strangers than among family members, all just because our medical services went to the dogs long ago. I wonder whether President Museveni ever really thinks about the state of our health services at all, or does he just only see visions of oil dollars and a middle income country without the appalling poverty in rural areas. Are we going to have a middle income country with our fourth world medical services, if there is any such world?
Our attention span is like that of a warthog. No one is talking about the radiotherapy bunker, the new radiotherapy machines, and cancer drugs that have been in short supply. How can we campaign for change if we cannot sustain the campaign? It is only when someone prominent dies that we start lamenting again?
What is the new President of the Uganda Medical Assiciation doing about this, instead of just lamenting like the rest of us? There has also been deafening silence from the UMA since the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council began coming up with ill-thought out policies on exams for doctors intending to do internship, capping of consultation fees and other silly notions. Doctors are supposed to be active when it comes to policies affecting health, their education and welfare. But UMA seems to be dead! Shame!
Geoffrey Buga,
Online reader
