The vice president of Uganda, HE. Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi is calling for the setting up of special funds to finance the treatment and programme of sickle cells disease as well as setting up centers to treat the disease which has turned to be one of deadly killer disease in the country.

Officiating at national sickelcells conference in Kampala today, Ssekandi mentioned that there is more need to sensitize the masses on the dangers of the disease and how to treat those who are born with it

The state minister for primary health Sara Opendi says that govt is laying plans to diagonise and offer best treatment for sickelcells adding that the disease is not easily identified by those having it making it difficult to treat at early stages.

6.7 million Ugandans are at risk of having a sickler kid with 100,000 t0 150,000 babies born with sickelcells die within two years and the disease very common among the central and eastern region population standing at 16% of the regions population.