Hon Joel Ssebiikali, the Ntwetwe Area Member of Parliament who also doubles as the Vice Chairperson of Parliamentary health committee says they are planning to come up with private members bill on National health insurance to compel government pass the bill into an Act for the good of extending better health services to all Ugandans
.Speaking during stakeholders meeting to commemorate the universal health coverage day today 13th at Golf course hotel, the bill was repealed and it’s now in the first parliamentary council.
According to him, it’s now 18 years since the bill was introduced but unfortunately it has not been realistic.
‘’We haven’t gotten anything, because the bill was repealed and it’s now in the first parliamentary council not yet in the ministry of health and we have a promise that we got from the ministry of health that by May next year this bill will come back to the floor of parliament’’.
He added.On March 31, 2021, the Parliament of Uganda passed a national health insurance bill that outlines the general structure for a first-ever national social health insurance scheme in Uganda however president Museveni did not sign it and was repealed.
This means that in East Africa its only Uganda and South Sudan which have no national insurance scheme in the East African Community.
On her part, Sheik Waiswa Muhammed Ali, the second deputy mufti –Uganda Muslim Supreme council who also attended the meeting noted that the fact that in our country we still experiencing a lot of poverty, it’s a need that all religious leaders see that its very vital for putting in place National health insurance scheme to kind of provide welfare for whole
.According to him, due to the absence of such an arrangement, religious leaders are experiencing a lot of burden for people who always approach them seeking help to meet their treatment bills.
