Mbale City, Uganda – The Government of Uganda, in partnership with Spotlight Africa, has trained over 250 Village Health Teams (VHT) in the Industrial City Division of Mbale City, under Bukasajja Health Centre.
Spotlight Africa is a foreign NGO committed to addressing areas of high maternal mortality rates among low-income communities in Mbale City. Other areas of intervention include the treatment of common ailments such as malaria, TB, and cholera, among others.
The chairman of Bukasajja Health Centre IV, Mr. Steven Masiga, pledged to encourage community members to make use of the health facility, while the RCC of the Industrial Division, Mr. Hamuza Banga, stated that he has been well-equipped by the Government to monitor all Government programs, having received a brand new double-cabin pickup.
The founders of Spotlight Africa were in the country to assess the state of their projects. Other community interventions undertaken by Spotlight Africa include the provision of safe drinking water, with thousands of boreholes drilled, education services, and ICT skills training, among others.
The Tomos Rees family reminisced about how they were searching for the poorest community around 2009 in the city of Mbale, which had the poorest people in need of their intervention. Many of the beneficiaries of their projects include internally displaced persons who fled from the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Karamojongs who settled in Namatala.
The health facility serves the districts of Budaka, Mbale DLG, Mbale City, and Butaleja DLG.
The city council recently constituted a Health Management Committee to assist in the management of the health facility. The committee is a statutory committee provided for under the Health Management Guidelines 2019, and the chairperson is Steven Masiga, leading a team of about 11 members.
In the background are the visiting team from the United Kingdom representing Spotlight Africa, Steven Masiga, chairman of the health facility, and RCC Mr. Amuza Banga.
Mr. Okotol, the Executive Director of the Uganda chapter, promised continuous collaboration with the funders of Spotlight Africa and thanked them immensely for their generosity.
