Kampala — INTERNALLY displaced persons and the people of Ogolo village, Ndzaipi sub-county in Adjumani district have commended the European Union (EU) for the construction of a sh243m health centre II in the area.

EU constructed the health centre through the Northern Uganda Rehabilitation Progra-mme (NUREP). Construction work, which took four months from December 2008, cost sh213m.

NUREP programme manager Paint Bakema said Ogolo Health Centre would receive sh30m from the programme to furnish and stock it.

This would bring the total cost of the centre to sh243m.

Adjumani district health officer Dr. Alice Vuchiri applauded the EU for boosting the health sector.

She added that NUREP had constructed 11 out of the 37 health units in the district.

Vuchiri asked the residents of Ogolo to maintain the heath centre, saying it would cater for women during child birth and treat malaria, especially among children.

Northern Uganda state minister David Wakikhona, who commissioned the health centre recently, said NUREP was implementing the Government's sh1.1 trillion peace, recovery and development plan.

The plan is meant to cater for 40 districts in the north, east and north-eastern Uganda that were affected by the 22-year-old Lord's Resistance Army war, those affected by the war during the Idi Amin regime and the Karimojong cattle rustlers.