DDT is harmless — Muhwezi
By Herbert Ssempogo
HEALTH Minister Jim Muhwezi has reaffirmed that the plan to use Dichlorodiphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT) against malaria is underway.
Muhwezi said, “The matter has been settled and it is going to be used. DDT is totally harmless.”
He was recently responding to questions at the Uganda Human Rights Commission where he launched a publication, ‘The Voice of Patients’.
Muhwezi, who did not reveal when the ministry would use DDT, said malaria was still a very big problem in the country and had to be eliminated.
“Every time people are complaining of malaria. This is unacceptable I have just driven myself here because my driver was suffering from it,” he said causing laughter.
He lamented that the nation loses about $340m every year in the fight against the killer disease.
He said many consultation conferences had been conducted worldwide and the use of DDT had been given a go ahead
Muhwezi assured th
e people that some developed countries had used it and there were no side effects reported.
The government’s plan to use DDT has been opposed by some members of the local and international community. They say that it will have disastrous effects.
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Published on: Sunday, 6th June, 2004
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Export brains, says Muhwezi
The Minister for Health, Brig. Jim Muhwezi, has advised students to take education as a tool of poverty eradication and aim at exporting brains to developed countries, writes Darious Magara.
Muhwezi said this in speech read by Kabale Municipality MP Serapio Rukundo at the graduation of 315 students of Africa College of Commerce in Kabale town recently.
“Take education competitively and aim at producing the best quality graduates who will export their labour to developed countries” Muhwezi said.
He warned graduates against promiscuity that might lead them to acquire HIV/AIDS.
The principal, Adrian Ndemere, said they planned to double their intake by 2006.
Published on: Saturday, 5th June, 2004
Brain drain? What brain drain? This comes after some naive WHO officials have proposed to buy healthcare professional from the Third World.
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In a ward in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, two female visitors exchanged blows over a patient. Published on: Saturday, 5th June, 2004 -- Teacher flees from pit latrine naked ARUA — A teacher in one of the schools in Arua recently fled from a pit latrine naked. The teacher was answering nature’s call when a black snake fell on his back, reports Thomas Pere Published on: Saturday, 5th June, 2004
Visitor romances in hospital
It happened when a female visitor arrived and sat close to the patient. she started touching him while saying sweet words in a soothing tone. “Darling how are you feeling, don’t mind you will be okay,” she said. when the second female visitor arrived, she was not pleased by what she was seeing and hearing from the first visitor.
“who is this lady calling my boy friend her darling?” The second visitor asked the patient’s mother.
This sparked off a verbal fight between the two visitors, which ended up in a slight brawl.
Fortunately, the patient’s brother acted quickly and separated them. He then whisked them out amidst laughter from patients.
The teacher identified as Mudua shocked onlookers when he stormed out of the latrine minus his trousers while yelling.
This prompted the pupils to take off to avoid seeing their teacher in embarrassment. He was only helped when a colleague told him to hide behind the latrine before they could get for him what to put on temporarily. Later on the snake was killed and the teacher’s pair of trousers were given back to him.
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