Lubowa hospital: Uganda should learn from the Lesotho experience

Salima Namusobya, executive director of the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), says Uganda should learn from the Lesotho experience before implementing the public private partnership (PPP) for the International Specialised Hospital of Uganda (ISHU) at Lubowa. “It is, therefore, very likely that the government will spend taxpayers’ money on debt repayment for a hospital that will serve a small number of people, yet the Shs1.3 trillion shillings would go a long way in improving the public healthcare system in the country. The money could, for example, also go towards improving the Uganda Cancer and Heart Institutes at the Mulago National Referral Hospital. It is not too late for Uganda to learn from the Lesotho experience and drop this PPP that is coming at a very high cost to the public.”

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Mar 27, 2019




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