Minister of Health Ruhakana Rugunda giving a speech during the 2nd Annual Health Network Workshop at Fairway Hotel

Minister of Health Ruhakana Rugunda giving a speech during the 2nd Annual Health Network Workshop at Fairway Hotel

Minister of Health Ruhakana Rugunda giving a speech during the 2nd Annual Health Network Workshop at Fairway Hotel

Segal Family foundation, as a famous based charity, has injected you use US$8m (sh20bn) to enhance health issues in sub Saharan Africa, Uganda is being the focal beneficiary.

Speaking throughout the Segal Family 2nd Annual Health Network dinner at Fairway Hotel in Kampala, Andy Bryant, the chief director asserted their objective is usually to move beyond clinics and hospitals.

“We desire to alter the perspective of the most popular person towards medical care, to empower these phones prevent the at their peak epidemics before they really become real in society, ”said Bryant.

He added that a lot of epidemics in society are preventable but because people lack enough knowledge about them they've got turned into serious and recurrent aliments claiming several lives.

Bryant added that the funding would be to go towards youth friendly interventions, agriculture to cut back malnutrition and dissemination programs sent to community health education in over six countries in sub Saharan Africa. These countries include Uganda, Liberia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania.

He noted the implementation of the programs is done by local civil society organizations that share similar objectives and in Uganda 30 partners have already been selected operating in mainly the eastern and western regions of the us.

While presiding over the dinner, the Minister of Health , Rukana Rugunda commended Segal’s contribution saying this will greatly assist to supplement Government efforts to enhance health care.

“Government has come up with a number of interventions for medical specially in rural communities and with such initiatives, the aim of quality health care would have been a dream come true, ”said Rugunda.

Rugunda also noted who's quite absurd that particular simple diseases like malaria which can be treatable plus much more so preventable are still ranking high one of many killer diseases in Ugandaa.