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Daily Monitor Wednesday May 26 2021 Summary Prof Joloba asked government to provide them with at least $100m (Shs354 billion) to expand the facility to avoid heavy spending by Ugandans when they travel abroad for organ transplant services.
Makerere University has established a facility to store body parts for people who need transplants and other medical interventions, the developers revealed yesterday. The development comes a few weeks after Parliament enacted a law criminalising human sacrifice and the June 2020 Cabinet approval of the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Tissue Transplant Bill, 2020. Presenting to officials from the university and the National Research and Innovations Fund (NRIF) yesterday, Prof Moses Joloba, the lead investigator in the banking of body parts, said they have laid down clear strategies to survive the ethical and social concerns around their development. ....