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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU
ARUA CITY: TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
Dr Elizabeth Kasirye, a preventive healthcare specialist at the Ministry of health, says people must not wait to first fall sick and then seek medical attention.
“Embrace preventive care programs like vaccination. Let us turn health audit into a routine habit,” she emphasized.
Dr Kasirye said the number of people dying from preventable diseases like HIV/AIDS in Uganda is simply too much and blames it on poor health seeking behavior.
“Check for every disease, not just HIV/AIDS. Whether chest infection, eye problems, dental formula, hepatitis, cancer, etcetera; you need to check so that you are safe,” emphasized Dr Kasirye.
Insisting that it serves no purpose to go to a government medical facility and find essential preventive services missing, Dr Kasirye appealed to the public to sound alarm over missing services.
The medic also urged caution and vigilance in regard to the recent emergence of a new Corona virus strain which she says does not present the usual flulike symptoms of running nose but instead causes joint pain which can easily be confused with malaria.
She added that the new COVID strain also causes chest pain that people need to go for testing when they experience such symptoms.
“Let us be the security to ourselves. We should go back to social distancing and wearing of masks,” she said.
Thank you Eng William Tiyo Odaa for emporing our youths for a sustainable life go ahead with that if you could indicate us level of education age which is suitable for the current training which is going on thank you Once again.