This was after a member of the committee Alice Alaso said the blood collecting body refused to collect blood from the people who were mobilised by the activists for change.

The authorities from the blood bank claimed that they had enough blood in stock to take the country for the next six months, but a few days later, the same leaders appealed for more blood as their bank was running dry.

The chairperson of the committee Sam Lyomoki said Kyeyune will have to resign if the country runs short of blood before these months elapse.

However Kyeyune said that by the time the leaders of activists for change approached them to mobilize people to donate blood they had enough blood in stock. 

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The district Director of health services Dr. Edris Musisi says the hospital has been operating without blood for about one week after suppliers from Nakasero blood bank ran out.

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Dr. Musisi says the shortage has been attributed by increased numbers of anaemic patients who need blood transfusion at different health centre’s in the district.

He adds that many cases requiring blood transfusion are now being referred to Mulago national referral hospital of which it is very far from Kayunga district.

This however comes after the national blood bank rejected blood donation by the members of the Activist for change A4C a pressure group that had organized to donate blood at the constitutional squire last month.

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This followed an offer by Activists for Change, the organizers of the walk to work protests to donate blood on one of the walk to work days.

Addressing journalists at parliament mityana district woman mp Sylvia Namabide said that they were surprised to hear Dr. Kyeyune saying that the country has enough blood and yet the same person was in parliament the previous days saying that Uganda does not have enough blood.

Namabidde says that as women who have been advocating for blood donations do not have any problem with people who walk to donate blood.

She also says that as an organisation they would have loved every Ugandan to donate blood. She however distanced the organisation from any political arrangements to donate blood.

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