Author: Steven Wandera

Heaps of cane scattered all over the road, ‘welcome’ visitors entering Masindi town especially from the neighbouring districts of Hoima and Buliisa. Covered with flies, the spillage is allegedly caused by trucks which drop cane while transporting it to Kinyara sugar factory making the town look untidy hence compromising it’s hygiene. A search conducted in town by The Albertine Journal on Sunday established that Kijura cell, located in Central Division, is the hot spot of cane spillage. It was established that Kinyara employed people to gather littered cane. However, they just make heaps on the road side instead of transporting…

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Residents of Kasongoire Parish have decried the absence of health workers at Kasongoire health centre II in Budongo Sub-County, Masindi district. The LCI chairperson for Kisagura village, which hosts the facility, Julius Bagonza, told The Albertine Journal that the facility has three health workers, but only one has reported for duty in a year. A health centre II is supposed to be led by an enrolled nurse, working with a midwife, two nursing assistants and a health assistant. It runs an out-patient clinic, treating common diseases and offering antenatal care and refers cases that it cannot manage to the unit the…

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