Delivering the Kabaka’s message, Prince Daudi Chwa said that research has revealed that Buganda subjects are very sick and in need of medical services, hence the ongoing medical camps in the monarchy.
Kabaka Foundation, a Buganda Kingdom health and social development entity, together with the Jubilee Insurance Company, have formalized a joint health policy insurance arrangement code named ‘Tubeere Balamu Yinsuwa’, for the Kabaka’s subjects.
It was commissioned on 12th August 2025 by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II’s sibling, Prince Daudi Chwa during a medical health camp at Kyaggwe ssaza headquarters in Mukono Central division’s Ggulu ward.
Delivering the Kabaka’s message, Prince Daudi Chwa said that research has revealed that Buganda subjects are very sick and in need of medical services, hence the ongoing medical camps in the monarchy.
He expressed appreciation to voluntary medical personnel who have kept moving with Mengo in the arrangement for medical camps geared at improving people’s health standards.
He also thanked all stakeholders, the Kabaka Foundation and the Mengo Ministry for Social Services for the inevitable input in organizing the medical camps.
The Mengo Minister for Health and Social Services, Cotilda Nakate Kikomeko stressed the importance of keeping health standards high in communities, reasoning that it is healthy bodies that can effectively fight poverty.
Nakate stressed the importance of proper dieting in families as the beginning step for fighting diseases, and decried the high prevalence of crime which forces people to share houses with their animals like goats and chicken which in a long run infect them with diseases.
Former Church of Uganda Bishop for West Buganda diocese, who is also the Deputy Board chairman for Kabaka Foundation, Bp. Henry Katumba Tamale advised political aspirants in the forthcoming general elections to support their voters to get on board and acquire policies in the launched Tubeere Balamu Yinsuwa, reasoning that this will save the politicians the bother of meeting medical bills for communities.
He noted that as age sets in, people tend to become physically weak, and thanked the insurance coalition for extending the eligibility age to 70 years, and advised Ugandans in the diaspora to buy policies for their relatives at home to ease on the burden of travelling very often to Uganda to ensure treatment for these people.
And Mukono diocese host, Bishop Enos Kitto Kagodo attacked politicians for shunning church development projects like the current Mukono Cathedral extension. “We are building the cathedral but I do not see our politicians in Mukono including Members of Parliament contributing for this noble cause, where are you?”, Bp. Kagodo asked.
Turning to government, the prelate charged authorities to look at Buganda kingdom contribution as a complementing agent in health service provision, adding that it is not enough and calls for more intensive government support, “It would be unfortunate for people to get treatment in such camps only to go back home and die for lack of continuity of treatment in traditional health units”, he lamented.
The National Vice Chairman for the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) and Buikwe South member of parliament, Dr. Michael Lulume Bayigga advised the government to emulate the medical camp concept, saying it has proved to be an effective institutional arrangement in Zambia.
Explaining, Lulume said the Zambian government has arranged it in such a manner that patients find a full-fledged hospital with all the essential sections including x-ray, surgeries and admissions, with a patient leaving after accessing all services of a hospital.
The Kyaggwe County head, Ssekiboobo Vincent Matovu attributed the high numbers that attended the camp to lack of proper medication to Kabaka’s subjects who are dying in villages without any help.
