Kampala, 19th April 2022: – The Ministry of Well being, the World Well being Organization (WHO) and Tree Adoption Uganda (TAU), joined hands to commemorate World Well being Day in a tree-planting recount, basically basically based on the day’s theme, “Our Planet, Our Well being”.

By arrangement of the “Our planet, our smartly being” campaign, the Ministry of Well being and WHO highlighted the settle on to handle the hazards of climate switch while also urging the general public to have steps to guard the planet, their smartly being and prioritize the smartly-being of societies.

The tree-planting recount took space at the Ministry of Well being headquarters and other chosen smartly being products and services in Kampala and Wakiso districts. 

“The impacts of climate spark off the smartly being sector in Uganda are already being skilled and had been characterized by heavy rains related with floods, landslides, inhabitants displacement, destruction of smartly being infrastructure and disease outbreaks,” acknowledged Dr Daniel Kyabayinze the Director in Payment of Public Well being at the Ministry of Well being. 

The Performing WHO Representative to Uganda, Dr Bayo Fatunmbi highlighted that climate switch stays without a doubt one of many finest threats to human smartly being, “on this World Well being Day 2022, WHO is drawing the realm’s attention to the pressing steps that must be taken to defend humans and the planet healthy and to foster a motion to guarantee that healthy societies.”

“WHO estimates that bigger than 13 million deaths sooner or later of the realm every three hundred and sixty five days happen thanks to climate switch. Concrete and sustained actions taken nowadays will serve guarantee that a safe and healthy planet,” he added.

In November 2021, as allotment of the 2021 United Worldwide locations Climate Change Convention (COP26) smartly being program initiatives, Uganda committed to taking concrete actions towards lowering climate switch effects within the nation.

Uganda, like many other countries, is significantly plagued by the impact of climate switch. As an illustration, in 2021, bigger than 223,000 folks were plagued by drought, floods, landslides, heavy storms, and fireplace outbreaks within the nation. An estimated 20,000 folks were also internally displaced due to the the destruction of infrastructure and the anguish of waterborne and climate-tranquil ailments.

Furthermore, natural hazards also exacerbate already excessive ranges of meals insecurity and malnutrition while deforestation and the utilization of non-recycled plastic hang also been without a doubt one of many key challenges affecting the Ugandan surroundings.

Therefore, the 2022 World Well being Day commemoration actions will procedure attention to those dangers and implore Ugandans to guard their surroundings which in turn will reverse the consequences of climate switch thus bettering their standards of residing and safeguarding their smartly being.

The tree planting match, which is allotment of the actions to enact the broader facet of the COP26 commitments, precedes a excessive-level advocacy assembly that will likely be held at the Sheraton Lodge in Kampala on April 14, 2022. The match will steal pattern companions, civil society, and academia to discuss systems to toughen the Ugandan authorities in imposing the COP26 commitments on climate switch.