I completely agree with this article. The availability of basic health services is a basic foundation for an operational country.

The GDP measurement of growth in Uganda must not be measured by the standard of well being of its' citizens. Some investors or well placed people with contracts may be doing well, but if a hospital does not have basic drug supplies, or people who go to a "health center" can not get the drugs that are described herein, even aspirin,..then what good is a health center?

Why would expectant mothers even attempt to go to a hospital to deliver, if there are little or no services there, lack of painkillers, etc?

The statement below is the catch word "Referral hospitals are not only dilapidated but also poorly run by overworked and underpaid health workers and managers. Some expectant mothers die in corridors of hospitals, get still births or lose their babies due to lack of attention." I am personally a Healthworker, but when you look at may payslip you wonder whether it is me who is expected to work five days a week. Earning 594,114.00 Uganda shillings a month. Using fuel 10 litres in my car at 25,000/day makes it 500,000/= at the end of the month.This will leave 94,114/= Uganda shillings as balance. Before I even look at the rest of the car requirements, I have not washed my shirt or even drank a bottle of minerall water. By the way I have a wife and children who eat, go to school and I am vulnerabble to a host of other problems like other people. How do you expect me to input under such circumstances. At one time I was advised to get away from using my car and opt for a commuter or bodaboda, doest it make any sense for me to continue working on such a job? Definately no. That is why they quit for better opportunities.

One is forced to ask himself the question "What a country has Uganda turned to be or what are our politicians up to?" Those guys armed to the teeth with fire spitting instruments and were running about, threatening civilians who in their capacity as citizens wanted their politicians to adress the real issues during the last presidential election campaigns must now feel gratified once they see such humiliating articles. Where is that pride Uganda doctors once enjoyed as being the best practitioners in the entire sub continent? What is importance of creating Referral hospitals that lack even sringes, cotton to be simplicist? What is the importance of travelling in the most recent aircraft when your citizens who pay taxes through their nostrils go unattended to? For whom will hospitals be built after they are all death due to malaria, typhoid, unattended to labour.... It is self defeating to criticise Mugabe when the real Mugabes have remained to syphon Uganda tax payers money for meeting their prolonged apetites for luxuries. Either Ugandans wake up to face the real problems or continue accepting people who would do everything to remain in power in the names of their families and cohorts.

Museveni-ism is synonymous with Mugabe-ism; they are a perverse distortion of Africas cause and course of history. And unfortunately it is now apparent that it is going to take more than "People Power" to remove these African modern day barbaric tyrants hell bent on clinging to power even when the results on the grounds provide not a single shred of evidence to support their illegimate rule. Contrary to political rhetoric and bogus statistics routinely spewed from Kampala everybody knows the lives of Ugandans overall are worse than they have ever been in the history of the country. This is a fact; the rest is hand waving nonsensical mambo jambo.