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New Vision (Kampala)
September 23, 2003
Posted to the web September 23, 2003
Simon Mugenyi
Kampala
THE Minister of health, Brigadier Jim Muhweezi, has told local government security personnel to lay ambushes and kill people who steal health centre equipment.
Muhweezi gave the directive while launching the Uganda local authorities association branch in Rukungiri district on Friday.
He said he had received numerous complaints about stolen solar panels at health centres almost from all districts.
He said the leaders there were not doing enough.
"If a patient dies because the panels were stolen, don't you think the thief should be killed? Lay ambush and kill him," Muhweezi said.
The meeting attracted over 250 local government leaders from districts of western Uganda.
He urged district leaders to make sure that all children below 15 years are taken for the measles immunisation in the forthcoming immunisation exercise.
Meanwhile Muhweezi on Thursday launched Kibirizi Health centre in the district.
He said the centre is one of those constructed according to President Yoweri Museveni's manifesto implemented under the Health Sector Strategic Plan.Ends
