Kamwenge citizen highlights the state of service delivery in the district

A local citizen from Kamwenge District, Western Uganda, Ntawangwa George has highlighted the state of service delivery in the district showing poor service delivery in the priority sectors of education, health, roads and water. Ntawangwa was appearing on the Listenership Forum on Better FM on 06^th October, 2013.

“Kamwenge District has no district hospital which was one of the pillars of the decentralisation policy in Uganda. Out of the fifteen Sub Counties, only six have a health centre III. Besides, in the existing health facilities, there is poor service delivery.” Said Ntawangwa.

Kamwenge District Boundary Post

Ntawangwa adds, “Recently at Rukunyu Health Centre IV, a mother died while giving birth because she didn’t find medical workers at night. Another woman also died recently while giving birth at Kamwenge Health Centre III because there were no medical workers to attend to her.”

The Listeners Forum Live radio discussion which is always held every Sunday (08:00 – 10:00pm) was discussing service delivery in the Rwenzori Region.  The discussion was also attended by local citizens from Bukuuku Sub County in Kabarole District.

Ntawangwa also highlighted the state of service delivery in water and sanitation, roads and education sectors.

“Despite the district acquiring a grader from the central government, many roads in the district remain impassable for instance Masyoro – Mpara road. Water is also a problem and a danger to people’s health. In Kamwenge Trading Centre, water is on and off, besides there is no laboratory to treat water making typhoid the leading cause of death in the district.” Said Ntawangwa.

Kamwenge district is also facing detoriating services in the education sector since the district has no technical school when it’s a government policy for every sub county to have a technical school. Many government schools also lack appropriate infrastructures like classrooms, “Kamwenge Primary School buildings were condemned by the district engineers. However, there are no new buildings constructed and therefore students have no classrooms to study from.” Said Ntawangwa.

The live radio program which is supported by ToroDev is moderated by Mukonyezi Wilfred.