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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI
YUMBE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2024
Koro health center III in Bidibidi Refugee settlement in Yumbe district is three months away from turning from a temporary unit to a permanent facility.
This follows the construction of about sh2bn Outpatients Department, Inpatient Block, a maternity ward, 4-stance Ventilated Improved Pit latrine and a placenta pit.
There is also a motorized borehole and overhead tanks being installed as part of the Uganda Covid19 Response Emergency preparedness (UCREP) project, a result of the ministry of health’s bold move to invest grants from the World Bank that were meant for vaccine purchases in infrastructure improvement.
The construction project is being undertaken by Pearl Engineering Company. The works began one year ago and are still within the stipulated project period.
The works collectively stand at about 95% according to the Site Manager, Churchill Otim.
Previously Koro health center which serves an estimated population of 17, 023 refugees and host community has had temporary structures.
Otim said they will also set up walk ways, and drive ways to facilitate mobility within the compound and install solar system to boost power at the facility.
The new structures will transform the health services in the area according to Miriam Fudrira, a community liaisons officer and neigbour to the facility.
Routine HIV/AIDS sensitization, counseling and testing, family planning, antenatal and postnatal care and other general health services at the level of a dispensary are being rendered at the facility.
