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Uganda: Defence Ministry to Build Sh35 Billion Hospital
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New Vision (Kampala)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Madinah Tebajjukira
Kampala
The defence ministry is to spend sh35b to construct a new hospital to replace the former Mbuya military hospital.
The chief of engineering, Brig. Timothy Sabiiti, on Wednesday told MPs on the defence and internal affairs committee that the ministry was searching for land worth sh2b for the project to be set up in Kampala.
He said the new hospital, with modern equipment would be a referral centre to provide better health care to soldiers and their families.
Sabiiti was part of a team led by defence minister Dr. Crispus Kiyonga and his deputy Ruth Nankabirwa, to present the ministry's policy statement to the legislators.
The ministry, the engineering chief added, would also renovate several army health centres countrywide.
MPs also heard that the army mooted the project after Mulago Hospital denied soldiers services due to outstanding medical arrears worth sh566m.
The ministry's under secretary, Sam Ogere, said the debt would be cleared.
"Due to huge arrears, the ministry's credit line was suspended. So far, sh166m has been paid and the remaining sh400m is being processed," he explained.
He added that the army was equipping its health centres to cater for the soldiers on a 'selective basis'.
The 42-acre Mbuya hospital land is to be sold to an investor.
But Buganda Kingdom says it owns four acres of it.
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Nankabirwa said the Government had agreed with Mengo to split the land into two; Mengo takes four acres and the Government takes the remaining 38 acres on which the army hospital would be built.
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