Daily Monitor
Thursday April 01 2021
The passing came after members rejected Health State Minister in charge of general duties Robinah Nabanja’s motion to withdraw the Bill.
Summary
Mr Achilles Kiwanuka, a programme officer with Partners in Population and Development (PPD) Africa Regional Office, a non-governmental organisation, said discussions on the NHIS started way back in the early 1990’s and has slowly evolved over the years but needs to be passed.
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Parliament has passed the long-awaited National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Bill, which seeks to provide universal healthcare to all Ugandans.
The passing came after members rejected Health State Minister in charge of general duties Robinah Nabanja’s motion to withdraw the Bill. Ms Nabanja said the government wanted to withdraw the Bill pending more consultations.
This has been revealed by the minister of health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng a day after state minister for health in charge of general duties Robinah Nabanja said the ministry had halted the process to allow further engagements and consultations with scientists over its safety and efficacy.
Addressing journalists at Media centre in Kamala Dr Aceng said government will use Astrazeneca vaccine to protect its people with 400,000 dozes for the first phase out of the 18M ordered.
She further said the country is expected to receive 3M dozes vaccines from the covax facility with the first 1.4M dozes expected before end of March 2021