| 30
June, 2009
China
donates medical equipment to Uganda
Kampala, Uganda —
The
Chinese government on Tuesday donated
medical equipment worth 300,000 U.
S. dollars to Uganda boost the East
African country's effort to promote
reproductive health.
"I
hope it will play a positive role,"
said Wang Zeshan, charge d'affaires
at the Chinese Embassy while handing
over the equipment to Uganda's Health
Minister Stephen Malinga.
Malinga
said though maternal and infant mortality
and morbidity is on a declining trend,
it is still unacceptably high.
According
to Ministry of Health statistics,
the country's maternal mortality rate
decreased from 505 per 100,000 births
in 2001 to 435 per 100,000 in 2006
and infant mortality from 156 per
1,000 in 2001 to 136 in 2006.
Malinga
said reproductive health is one of
the priority areas that need intervention.
This donation of diagnostic, imaging
and laboratory equipment will help
improve the delivery of services to
the people of Uganda, he said.
China
has given several donation s to Uganda
including a 100-bed general hospital
whose construction is scheduled to
start in August.
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