Over 900 Health Workers in Uganda’s Catholic Health Facilities Get PPEs in COVID-19 Fight

The donation that includes gloves, foot and eye protection, hard hats and full body suits will be “extended to most areas at risk of contracting COVID-19 in 8 border districts located within the Catholic Dioceses of Arua, Hoima, Kabale, Kotido, Masaka, Mbarara, Moroto and Tororo,” according to the September 30 report. 

Various Church leaders in Uganda took part in the flagging off ceremony that took place at the Uganda Catholic Secretariat including Bishop Robert Muhiirwa of Fort Portal Diocese, Archbishop Emanuel Obbo of Tororo, Archbishop Lambert Bainomugisha of Mbarara, Bishop Callistus Rubaramira of Kabale and UEC Secretary General, Msgr. John Baptist Kauta.

Speaking at the event, Bishop Muhiirwa who doubles as the chairman of the Health Commission of UEC expressed his gratitude to the Government of Germany for the donation.

He appealed for more support to meet the needs of the 311 health facilities that are managed by the Catholic Church in the country. 

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The Ugandan Bishop said that the Catholic health facilities “are serving all Ugandans especially those in need and now that churches have re-opened and other places of worship, more protection and support are urgently needed against COVID-19.”

On his part, the Executive Secretary of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau, Dr. Sam Orach, said, “Uganda has entered Level Four of the COVID-19 pandemic where the infection is no longer just in clusters.”

“Government health facilities are getting overwhelmed hence the need for support through the private partnership, which calls for more financial and material support from the donor community to protect Ugandans,” Dr. Orach has been quoted as saying in the September 30 Radio Sapientia report.

Magdalene Kahiu is a Kenyan journalist with passion in Church communication. She holds a Degree in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Currently, she works as a journalist for ACI Africa.