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Daily Monitor
Monday May 03 2021
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The disease and lockdown have starved the market of animals.
Traders have predicted that the prices will more than double in the coming months due to shortage of livestock, as consumers find solace in the once luxurious poultry meat.
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Meat, a delicacy for most Ugandans, is becoming unaffordable, due to its soaring prices, Daily Monitor has established.
Traders have predicted that the prices will more than double in the coming months due to shortage of livestock, as consumers find solace in the once luxurious poultry meat.
The cattle shortage has pushed beef prices from Shs10,000 to Shs16,000 per kilogramme in several districts, including Tororo, Masaka, Arua, Kasese, Masindi, and Gulu.
This pledge later featured in several budget speeches between 2001 and 2010.
During campaigns for the 2011 General Election, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party released a five-year manifesto in which it committed to working on key infrastructure in the country.
The manifesto had a list of 22 roads, which the government promised to upgrade from gravel to tarmac. However, no work has been done on the 129-kilometre stretch to date.
Mr Titus Aleper, the Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) project manager, now says they are in the process of securing contractors to undertake designs and build the roads.
“We are still in the process of identifying contractors before the exercise kicks off. The construction process has been divided into two parts; the 65km Jinja-Mbulamuti-Kamuli road and the 64km Kamuli-Bukungu road in Buyende District. So we shall have two contractors,” he said during a stakeholders’ engagement meeting in Jinja City on Tuesday.
Why self-medication is on the rise
Wednesday April 28 2021
A woman prepares to take medication. Under and over doses are common during self-medication. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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In the past, self-medication was common among the rural population, who lived far away from health centres.
However, today any person who feels unwell walks into a pharmacy or drug shop to buy drugs, some of which require doctors’ prescription.
According to medical experts, self-medication results in under or overdose, especially among children and expectant mothers.
In 2010, the National Drug Authority (NDA) estimated that eight in every 10 people self-medicate or buy drugs over the counter. NDA attributes this to the increased number of pharmacies and drug shops, expensive treatment from clinics and long distances to health facilities.
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