The National Unity Platform leadership has said its a shame for the country to keep spending heavily on treatment of its top cream abroad as our own health care systems worsens.
NUP Secretary General Lewis Rubongoya took to his twitter account to scoff at Mr.Museveni’s health care system that is doubted by the very people who would run for it.
Rubongoya cites top officials in Museveni’s government who have passed on in the recent times who include; General Elly Tumwine who died in the Aga Khan Hospital in Kenya,General Pecos Kutesa (India), Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebire (Kenya), Jacob L’okori Oulanyah (USA).Others who are receiving treatment abroad include Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze and many unnoticed Ugandans privately meeting own medical bills.
He says in his rant on the state “Think about this and what happens to millions of Ugandans who cannot even afford an air ticket, let alone treatment abroad.In one of his #COVID19 speeches, Gen. Museveni said the whole country had only 218 ICU beds. Yes, 218!
We have an acute shortage of healthcare professionals, and an abundance of military, police, intelligence and other security personnel of all names.We have no oxygen in hospitals, but we never run out of teargas and pink water to be sprayed on citizens who are fighting for better.
We have no ambulances, but we have brand new military, police vehicles, and those mambas which roam our streets everytime the system smells trouble from those demanding for better governance.
Instead of building modern hospitals, they are busy building modern prisons.
We have fighter jets which come out on ceremonies every five years, but we probably have no single air ambulance! If it is there, it’s a reserve of the few privileged!
Instead of paying health workers better, the regime would rather pay off artistes to sing it praises and buy off political opponents to cross over in ridiculous fashion.
They never boast of the big numbers of patients that can be accommodated in hospitals, but they speak in praise of their capacity to imprison thousands of citizens at any given time! We must think more about this animal called the COMMON GOOD!
When you go to Aga Khan and many other hospitals abroad, you’ll probably be attended to by a Ugandan trained doctor. They simply left because of poor working conditions, the absence of equipment, and the lack of opportunities for growth. You can’t ignore the common good for good.
It may sound cliché, but the saying has come true before our very eyes: No one is safe until all of us are safe. No one is free, until all of us are free.
Rubongoya joins senior presidential advisor on media Joseph Tamale Mirundi who says its a shame for the military that is known world over to have the best medical facilities to be sending its generals abroad for medical care. Mirundi said while appearing on his weekly show on Babatv,THE BIG STORY that Elly Tumwine should have died in a military facility in Mbuya or Bombo and not Nairobi.
For full video click here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhmyq5meNoa
General Tumwine’s body is expected in country later this week for burial ceremonies that the state is yet to announce.