Photo: Alex Esagala/Daily Monitor
President Yoweri Museveni addresses heads of state and
other delegates during the joint retreat on infrastructure and health
financing at Munyonyo on February 22, 2018.
Kampala
— The East African Community heads of state Thursday resolved to expand
access to specialized health care and cross border health services in
the region to preserve the region's human capital base.
The leaders also
agreed to strengthen the network of medical reference laboratories and
the regional rapid response mechanism to protect the region from health
security threats including pandemics, bio-terrorism and common agents.
This they said, would ensure sustainable socioeconomic development.
In a joint
communique, presented by the Secretary General of the East African
Community (EAC) Liberat Mfumukeko, the leaders stressed the importance
of strengthening health systems and preparedness to address both current
and emerging challenges such as non-communicable disease like cancer
and communicable diseases like HIV/ AIDS, malaria which pose significant
challenges to regional development.
The resolutions
were signed by Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Kenya's Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta,
Tanzania's Dr. John Joseph Magufuli, South Sudan's Salva Kiir Mayardit,
Burundi's First Vice-President Gaston Sindimwo representing Pierre
Nkurunziza and Rwanda's minister of Infrastructure James Musoni
representing Paul Kagame.
On infrastructure,
the leaders agreed to enhance capacity in infrastructure projects
coordination, preparation and development at the national and regional
levels to accelerate the realization of prioritized projects.
This during the
first day of the two-day retreat for East African Community heads of
state at Commonwealth resort Munyonyo under the theme "Deepening and
widening regional integration through infrastructure and health sector
development in the EAC partner states."
Communiqué 2018
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