Uganda’s State House Health
Monitoring Unit has arrested two Tanzanian nationals who were allegedly found
with stolen government drugs worth Sh.35 million ($9,558) that were meant to be
taken to Tanzania.
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| Uganda Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng |
Addressing journalists at their offices in Kampala
Wednesday, Dr Jackson Ojera Abusu, the head of the unit said Abel Leonard and
Yusufu Kasiano intercepted at Mutukula stage in Kisenyi taxi park in Kampala
following a tip off by the intelligence unit.
Abusu said drugs packed in boxes were being loaded
onto a taxi which raised suspicion from the unit’s intelligence team.
“The owners had disclosed that one of the boxes
contained drugs but the rest they reported they were containing skin lightening
cream but when searched, we found quite a number of medicines. We captured them
as exhibits and arrested two suspects.” He said, adding that “As I talk now,
they are still in custody.”
A total of 257 boxes of antimalarial drugs,
Lumiter, Lumartem and a total of 27 malaria strips were recovered and the suspects
are being investigated.
Uganda registered an estimated increase of more
than 100,000 malaria cases between 2016 and 2017 despite the various preventive
interventions against the disease, according to the World Malaria Report 2018.
According to the report, the country also accounts
for 4 per cent of malaria cases in the whole world, making it to the top five
countries responsible for nearly half of all malaria cases worldwide. Other
countries are Nigeria, DRC Congo, Mozambique, and India.
Abusu said the scarcity of drugs in health
facilities is because of such unscrupulous people.
“When we hear most health facilities complain of
stock outs of medicines, it is not true but such people are always out there to
deprive health facilities of such important medicine,” Abusu said.
A health worker who only identified herself as
Catherine said for such kind of acts to end, the unit needs to investigate
health workers as well.
“I am not pointing out health workers as a root
cause but most of our bosses; these in charges, own clinics. They steal drugs
then at the end of the day we have shortages, “Catherine said.
The Health Monitoring Unit said intelligence units
are at the boarders to stop such acts. – The Daily Monitor
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