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More than 16,000 fishing communities of Nalubwoyo Sub-County in Amolatar District are facing challenges in accessing health services after the facility built to serve them failed to operate five months after its commissioning.

Nalubwoyo HCIII was built by the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF Engineering Brigade at a cost of Shs1.4 billion with funding from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and was commissioned on April 5, 2024 by the Minister of State for Northern Uganda, Dr Kenneth Omona Olesugun who officiated at the launch on behalf of the Prime Minister, Ms Robinah Nabbanja.

With new structures including the Out- Patient Department block (OPD), maternity ward, staff houses, medical waste and placenta incineration pit, two VIP pit latrines among others, the facility lacks drugs, staff, and health equipment to kick start its operation.

Its contract was initially awarded to Otada Construction Company in 2018, which failed to complete the work.

Since its establishment on May 31, 2021, Nalubwoyo Sub-county with 35 villages and 5 parishes with a total population of 16,400 people has never had any government health facility and patients would trek about 20 kilometers to Alyec-meda HCIII or Amolatar HCIV which is located about 15 kilometers away to seek health services.

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