Press Release

United States Health Services Project Reaches Over 2 Million People in Lango Sub-region, Operating Theaters Open

Lira, May 10, 2023 –  Today, the United States Mission to Uganda is celebrating the strengthening of well being methods within the Lango sub-region of Northern Uganda, which leads to more healthy infants, moms, and younger ladies.

Since 2018, the U.S. authorities has partnered with the Ministry of Health to assist districts and well being services in delivering complete well being providers to over 2 million Ugandans dwelling within the Lango sub-region.  These efforts primarily benefited ladies and youngsters in Lango’s 475 parishes.  The undertaking greater than doubled ladies’s entry to high quality maternal and new child care providers.  The variety of ladies who delivered infants yearly at well being services elevated from 39,000 in 2018 to virtually 80,000 in 2022, leading to more healthy infants and fewer maternal and toddler deaths.  During the identical interval, adolescent ladies and younger ladies who yearly accessed voluntary household planning providers elevated from 75,000 to 180,000, making certain two and a half instances as many adolescent ladies have a more healthy and brighter future forward.  Overall well being outcomes for youngsters beneath 5 additionally noticed important enhancements.

Mission Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Uganda, Mr. Richard L. Nelson, stated, “In 2019, only 41 percent of children under five with pneumonia were appropriately treated, according to the Ministry of Health’s recommended standards.  That figure is now 95 percent.  We’ve also seen similar improvements in the treatment of childhood diarrhea, with 94 percent now being appropriately treated.”

Today’s occasions included a celebratory joint launch of three working theaters in Orum, Dokolo, and Ogur Health Center IVs. The well being middle in Orum has a maternity ward and a neonatal intensive care unit, which is able to enhance high quality maternal and new child care–finally supporting over 80,000 moms per yr.

Working along with affected communities, district leaders, and different key stakeholders to raised perceive the native context, the U.S. authorities undertaking additionally improved diet and water and sanitation providers, together with general well being in the neighborhood, main to raised outcomes for sufferers affected by HIV, TB, and malaria.  This undertaking, made potential by the USAID-funded Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services – North, (RHITES-N) Lango Activity, has improved the lives of many Ugandans within the Lango Sub-region of Northern Uganda.

For the previous 60 years, the U.S. authorities by USAID and different U.S. authorities companies have been working in partnership with Ugandans and different companions to deal with well being wants, together with sexual and reproductive well being and reproductive rights for all Ugandans, in direction of a brighter future, collectively.

For extra info, please contact:

Dorothy Nanyonga
Information Assistant
U.S. Mission Uganda
Tel: +256-414-250-314×6104 Cell: 0772-138-194
Email: KampalaPress@state.gov

By U.S. Mission Uganda | 10 May, 2023 | Topics: News, Press Releases, Sections & Offices