By Mulengera Reporters
The teaching hospital Speaker Anita Among embarked on a few months ago through her “Anita Foundation,” is nearing completion to enable ordinary Bukedea residents have access to high quality and affordable health services.
Knowledge about this hospital facility first became public at a time Among was suffering huge social media bashing after her palatial house became public mid-August as she hosted MPs for her thanksgiving in Bukedea. The thanksgiving was preceded by tumultuous moments which saw Among appear on the list of leaders who had inappropriately benefited from the Karamoja Mabaati bonanza besides having some of her closest allies put in jail for orchestrating electoral fraud and violence during the Bukedea LC5 by-elections.
Social media users described Among’s huge house as evidence of an opulent leader whose close to 200,000 residents languished in poverty as she lived like the legendary Marie Antonette. Some displayed pictures of rotten schools and hospital infrastructure within the same Bukedea district to portray Among as insensitive.
But now Afro Samuel Odongo, one of the guys managing the Speaker’s Anita Foundation, social media skeptics will soon eat their words as the state of art teaching hospital (which will most likely attract symbiotic partnership with KIU owned by Among’s mentor Hassan Basajjabalaba to facilitate training of medical students) has rapidly been constructed. Odongo says that Bukedea residents will soon be able to access high quality health services which their Woman MP has enabled through this teaching hospital.
According to Odongo Samuel Afro, the construction works are now 90% completed and the state-of-the-art theatre has already been erected into place at the facility while
the placement of hospital beds in different wards is currently ongoing. “We expect all these works to be completed in a month’s time,” Odongo explained implying that the teaching hospital will be operational as early as next January (2024).
The Anita Among teaching hospital is located in Bukedea Town Council (33 kilometres along Mbale-Kumi highway) and it’s destined to offer specialised and generalised medical services for various health conditions besides having a medical school to train young Ugandans. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [whatsapp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at [email protected]).
