In a media statement seen by Ultimate Media, Museveni decried the loss of one of Uganda’s trained bomb experts who will be hard to replace.

President Yoweri Museveni

The deceased was among the team of Uganda’s security personnel who were trained by American Federal Investigations Bureau (FBI) a decade ago to fight anti terrorism.

After the US training, Magembe become part of Uganda’s security organs that helped curb increased cases of terrorism in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala.

The doctors at Uganda Mulago National Referral Hospital are yet to release Magembe’s postmortem but family members say that he died of leg pains.

A requiem mass for him has been held today (30^th June 2010) at Christ the King Catholic Church in Kampala.

The late Walugembe’s body has been taken to Kyanamukaaka in Central Uganda district of Masaka for burial on Thursday.

Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media

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The Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Social Services has directed all Uganda districts to purchase at least 70% of their drugs from the government controlled National Medical Stores (NMS) as opposed to buying them from private drug companies.

Mulago Hospital building

The Member of Parliament for Bunya West, also a member of the committee Aggrey Henry Bagiire told journalists at Uganda Parliament today (29^th June 2010) that the policy has been to purchase at least 30% of the drugs from NMS by Uganda district governments.

Bagiire says the policy will help reduce the expiry of government drugs and increase availability of drugs in government hospitals and health centers.

In 2009 Uganda National Referral Hospital of Mulago faced an acute shortage of drugs yet there were drugs in NMS that could have been procured for the hospital. He says that if the new policy was in place, the hospital would not have had the drug shortage.

The Bunya West MP says that during the 2009/10 Uganda National budget, out of the 11 billion Uganda Shillings meant for drugs in Mulago Hospital, only 2 billion shillings was spent buying drugs from NMS.

Uganda continues to face shortage of drugs in various government owned hospitals and health centers partly due to corruption.

Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media

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