Bebe Cool meets Health Minister over TB Awareness promotion

Big size singer Bebe Cool on Tuesday this week met with the Minister of Health Dr. Ruth Jane Aceng and other health officials on how to promote Tuberculosis (TB) awareness. Below is the full statement from the singer after the meeting;

“Today I had a very exciting interaction with the Cabinet Health Minister Dr. Ruth Jane Aceng and her team that included the Commissioner for Health Promotion Dr Richard Kabanda, the Asst. Commissioner also head of National TB & Leprosy Program Dr Stavia Turyahabwe on how best to promote TB awareness. Together with my team, we made several proposals to the Minister among which is a proposal to cabinet to compel the Electoral Commission to use the coming elections to create awareness about health issues. My belief is that hundreds of millions of tax payers money is used to conduct elections at all levels but children and those that do not participate in elections, do not benefit from this expenditure. If however, the electoral commission were to compel every candidate to include health messages on their posters also work with ministry of health to carry out screening activities for different diseases particularly TB. People should not flock campaign rallies merely for political messages but should go back to their homes with a message or two about health. After all, am sure even politicians would love to lead healthy people.

The Hon Minister raised what I believe is an important issue about health centres that most of us never consider. She says that while most people think a better health care system is about building more health centres, she believes that prevention of diseases is more important. Apparently, 75% of the diseases that disturb Ugandans like Cholera, Malaria, Pnemonia, TB, Diarhorea, HIV/Aids and many more, are all preventable diseases. She says if we focus more on prevention of these diseases through awareness, then health centres will have less use.

She requested me to focus my awareness efforts on men because men are more susceptible to catching most of these diseases because of their stubbornness to heed to simple health messages like washing hands or going for checkups. #EndTBug #TBREACH,” Bebe Cool posted.