Bring back aid post system

I AM calling on the Southern Highlands Health Authority to bring the aid posts system back into the province.
Aid posts used to be effective government services providing medical assistance to bulk of the population in our rural communities in eighties and nineties.
Today, these facilities are either closed or run-down due to continuous neglect by responsible governments.
As a result, many people are denied their rights to readily available medical services at their proximity.
This is forcing patients to get medical assistance at major district health centres and hospitals.
Unfortunately, this is posing a lot of challenges on patients in terms of mobility in such a geographically hostile province.
Many vulnerable groups like women, children and the elderly people find it difficult to get to these centres to seek medication.
Consequently, many lives that are supposed to be saved through timely medications are silently dying from preventable diseases.
In some unfortunate instances, such deaths are blamed on sorcery which is posing unnecessary sufferings among families.
These lives can be saved if all the now dysfunctional aid posts throughout the province are restored.
The provincial government and respective district development authorities need to capture this need in their budgets as a priority.
They need to work in partnership with the Provincial Healthy Authority and make all aid posts operational again.
It is all about saving lives of people. People are divine creations.
They are the very reason why the world exists.
People deserve better medical services at their doorsteps.
It is their right guaranteed under the constitution.
To fulfil these constitutional obligations, the national government makes adequate annual budgetary allocations to the province and districts.
Why can’t these governments use the funds and revamp the facilities to provide much needed medical services at the LLG ward levels.
Now that the province has a health authority, can this be given a prominence so that our people in the rural areas are better served?

Steven Koya
Koalilombo village, Kagua