There is a grand programme by the ministry of health to evaluate health centres and clinics run by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces across the country with the purpose of uplifting them to hospital status.

The Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has told journalists that health centres run by the army will be lifted to hospital status because they offer services to both civilians and soldiers.

He says that donors, development partners, Members of Parliament (MPs) and all stakeholders who have visited health centres run by the UPDF are ‘very pleased.’

Aronda says that UPDF health centres are public because civilians access health services from there. He says that health centres run by the UPDF have serviced millions of Ugandans, Rwandase, Congolese, Burundians, Tanzanians, Kenyans and Somalis among others.