While addressing a press conference in Kampala Dr. Diana Atwine, the head of the recently Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit said several health officials across the country are being investigated over medicine loses in health centers.

Dr. Diana Atwine

Dr. Atwine says that the most implicated are the senior officers who take advantage of their offices to rob the citizens of their medicine.

The ministry has issued 8800400447 toll free and 0414288445 for the members of the public to report any suspicion of medicine theft.

During his campaigns in the just concluded elections President Museveni has promised to put a keen interest on health institutions and promised to terminate any officers who will be found involved in the vice of stealing medicine.

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The director of the unit, Dr. Diana Atwine says the centers have been used to divert medicine meant to be delivered to the government owned hospitals and health centers.

Kampala city

Addressing members of the Uganda press in Kampala, Atwine said that several other centers within Kampala are being investigated.

The Uganda Medicines and health services delivery monitoring unit has discovered over 30 ghost health centers in different parts of the country including the 10 in Kampala.

The fake centers have been receiving staff salaries, allowances and drugs from the government of the Republic of Uganda for over a year.

Atwine says the fake health centers have been selling the drugs they receive to private clinics and health centers within and outside Uganda. The Unit plans to arrest people who have been behind the management of fake health centers.

Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media

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