Opinion By Alex Gahima.
The former Medical Superintendent at Kisoro district Hospital Dr. Michael Baganizi has been appointed as the new deputy Program Manager of the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI).
A close family source confirmed to Voice of Muhabura that Dr. Baganizi already made the transition from Kisoro hospital and officially started work at the Ministry, earlier this week on Monday.
Head of Pediatrics Dr. Benon Rukunda is currently serving in acting capacity as medical director at Kisoro district hospital.
UNEPI is a national program that mainly targets infants and women of childbearing age by offering Uganda’s minimum health care package through Immunization.
The ascension of Dr. Baganizi to his new found position at the Ministry of Health comes with a new found respect from peers in the medical fraternity.
Kisoro district has been recognized as one of the leading districts in the country under the first mass covid-19 vaccination campaign with Kisoro hospital at the helm of things.
Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19 in Uganda back in 2020, Kisoro Hospital set up working mechanisms to ensure that the hospital was decongested to prevent the spread of the deadly disease.
Various Stations were set up in and around the hospital premises to ensure all the other medical services remained accessible to the public.
In the same year, shortly before the covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Baganizi ably represented his staff to demand for payments during the Ebola response and preparedness activities where close to 504 Million shillings was misappropriated by some senior medical staff at the district.
Through his own ingenuity, Dr. Baganizi has been praised for being a skilled proposal writer often succeeding in raising much needed funds and projects aimed at improving Kisoro Hospital.
The hospital greatly benefitted from a campaign drive to renovate the maternity ward in which First Lady of Uganda and now Minister for Education Hon. Janet Kataaha Museveni was involved.
The same activity attracted support from former Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura who was the chief runner at the Kisoro Marathon.
Since that time, Kisoro Hospital has benefitted from a water harvesting project that was sponsored by key implementing partners to address water shortage at the hospital.
Doctors for Global health (DGH), a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world set up shop at Kisoro hospital back in 2006 and continue to offer vital services to Kisoro communities including village health worker programs, Study programs, Cervical Cancer Screening Project and the Women’s Clinic and Chronic Disease Clinic among others.
Writer, Sports Lover and Church Warden
It is possible that some of you have been in the same room with Dr. Baganizi and you didn’t even realize it.
Quiet to those who do not understand his philosophy, Dr. Baganizi is not afraid to keep explaining and repeat a point or an idea to those he believes have the capacity to deliver.
As a media house owner, Dr. Baganizi has sent his time editing the news when manpower was thin.
He has authored a book dear to the heart of many Bafumbira and brings to life the positive changes in the Uganda Police Force under General Kale Kayihura.
Baganizi, a family man and Rotarian often spends his resources to lift up youth especially those involved in football and church activities.
One of his greatest philosophies is, you can make it exactly where you are by using what you have and improving on it until you become the best there is.
Every Sunday, you would be sure to catch him at church as the senior warden.
Great things await the Doctor with a heart of Gold.
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