The Foundation of Human Rights Initiative has appealed to government to strengthen the laws that govern people that are involved in selling medicines in the country.

Livingstone Sewanyana

While Speaking to journalists, the Chairman of the Initiative, Livingstone Sewanyana has said that all people have a right to good health and so the government has every reason to take matters of health seriously because they are a people’s right.

Sewanyana says one of the ways that the government can help Ugandans fully enjoy their right to health is through reforming the laws that concern the people that sell drugs such that not every Tom, is allowed to sell drugs Dick and Harry which is happening now in the country because the law is weak.

He has also called upon the government to honor its commitment to the Abuja Declaration where it promised to commit at least 15% of its annual budget to the health sector by 2015.

The government will only commit about 9.6% of its 2010/2011 budget to the health sector and is said not to be on course to achieve the ultimate requirement of 15% national budget funding to the health sector by 2015.

By Zakaria Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media