IGG wants two Luweero Hospital staff disciplined over negligence of duty
A section of the Luweero District officials at a site visit for construction progress at Luweero Hospital on May 19, 2023. PHOTO | DAN WANDERA
What you need to know:
- IGG report indicates that the duo recorded less than seven attendances in more than a month
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has ordered the Luweero Chief Administrative Office (CAO), Mr Innocent Asaba Birekeyaho to institute appropriate disciplinary action against two staff at Luweero General Hospital over irregular attendance to duty.
In a letter dated May 22, 2025 signed by the Deputy Inspector of Government, Ms AnneTwinomugisha Muhairwe, the IG wants the Luweero CAO to cause a disciplinary action against Mr Augustine Kaweesa, Nutritionist and Mr Peter Mubiru, after an investigation report pinned them of irregular attendance to duty at the hospital.
The IG letter clarifies that investigations by the Mukono Regional IG Office reviewed the hospital’s attendance register for the period between January 1, 2024 and February 19 and found out that Mr Kaweesa recorded his attendance only 4 times while Mr Mubiru recorded attendance for only six times during the same period.
“The information obtained by the IG office is collaborated by the Medical Superintendent who confirmed that the two staff had been inconsistent in attendance contrary to Section F-b, paragraph 2 of the Uganda Public Service Standing Orders, 2021 which provides that public officers shall not absent themselves without approval of their respective supervisors,” part of a statement contained in the IG letter of May 22, 2025 reads.
Investigations further reveal that Mr Mubiru has also been employed on contract basis at Kiwoko Hospital as a Laboratory Assistant since November 5, 2018, contrary to Section F-e, Paragraph 1 of the Public Service Standing Orders which bar public officers from such contracts while in active service.
“A public officer shall not engage in any occupation or undertaking for gain outside his or her official duties which would require his or her attention at any time during official working hours,” the IG states in her letter to the Luweero CAO.
The Luweero District Chief Administrative Officer is supposed to inform the IG of the action taken in the shortest time possible.
But the Luweero Chief Administrative Officer on May 22, 2025 told the Monitor that he was busy at a function and would crosscheck if the letter is at his desk.
A 2015 study by Intra Health International revealed that 68 per cent of health workers in the public sector either weren’t showing up or were leaving work early so they could collect a second pay check at different health sites or different jobs.
Experts have advised on the enforcement of tougher guidelines to curb absenteeism that negatively impacts on the service delivery systems at public health facilities in Uganda. Several facilities are now introducing biometric systems to detect absenteeism.
