Teachers share a light in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA
By Flavia Lanyero: Posted
Friday, February 15
2013 at
02:17
Preparations are nearly complete for the
formation of a new health regulatory body that would oversee all the
existing health profession councils as a supreme authority.
The National Health Professions Authority, if established, would regulate the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council, the Allied Health Professionals Council, the Pharmacy Council and the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council, who will have equal powers.
It will also regulate Traditional and
Complimentary Medicine Practitioners, better known as traditional
healers. Dr Emmanuel Kasimbanzi, an associate professor at Makerere
University School of Law, who is leading the consultancy to establish
the Authority, said there has not been any specific law that
collectively governs all these councils.
He added that as a result, joint supervision of
the health sector has been difficult, resulting to duplication of
services, difficulty in mobilising resources and a general poor health
service delivery.
Dr Kasimbanzi was speaking at a consultative meeting on Public-Private Partnership in Kampala yesterday.
Dr Kasimbanzi was speaking at a consultative meeting on Public-Private Partnership in Kampala yesterday.
“The supreme body will help decentralise some
services, it will also have the mandate to mobilise funds and do
advocacy with one single voice,” he said adding; “The other four
councils will operate as directorates under the authority.”
He said the draft, together with a National Health
Professions and Occupational Regulatory Bill, will be presented to the
Ministry of Health in March, which if passed by Parliament and the
President, will authorise the establishment of the Authority.
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