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Authorities in Wakiso District are set to install biometric machines and CCTV cameras at health facilities to curb staff absenteeism and vandalism of property.

The technology will be installed at the health centre IIIs and IVs this financial year.

Each of the health centres will have eight cameras and one biometric machine. The District Health Officer, Dr Emmanuel Mukisa, said in a recent interview that the camera installation process is ongoing while the biometric machines will be installed in the third quarter of the financial year.

“We are doing away with the staff attendance audit books and now going digital. Each health facility has been asked to include this in the expenditure priorities in this year’s budget (2024/2025),” Dr Mukisa said.

He said their investigations revealed that some of the health workers entrust their colleagues to stand in for them in exchange for some pay as the former offer services elsewhere.

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