In a predominant diplomatic assembly, Dr Kasonde Mwinga, the newly appointed World Health Group (WHO) Country Consultant to Uganda, today presented her credentials to the Minister of Speak for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Henry Oryem Okello in Kampala.
Hon. Oryem congratulated and welcomed Dr Mwinga, expressing appreciation for WHO’s ongoing enhance in strengthening Uganda’s effectively being programs and addressing serious public effectively being challenges. “We are grateful for WHO’s unwavering dedication to assisting Uganda in its wrestle towards diversified effectively being threats, together with infectious, communicable, and non-communicable ailments, as effectively as rising effectively being crises,” he said.
One day of her presentation, Dr Mwinga expressed gratitude for the warm welcome and reaffirmed WHO’s dedication to supporting Uganda and the effectively-being of its folks. She emphasized the importance of collaboration between WHO and the Ugandan authorities in addressing effectively being challenges. “Together, we are able to care for the root causes of effectively being disparities and work towards a more healthy future for all Ugandans,” she added.
Earlier than her appointment in Uganda, Dr Mwinga served as the Director of Universal Health Coverage, Existence Direction Cluster, at the WHO Africa Regional Office in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, from Could perchance 2021 to 14 January 2025. On this role, she led WHO experts in bettering effectively being and effectively-being all over varied age groups through folks-centered effectively being programs aimed at achieving accepted effectively being protection in Africa. Her work all in favour of inserting women folks, youngsters, youngsters, and older folks at the heart of effectively being carrier offer. She led teams supporting African Member States in strengthening effectively being policy and planning, bettering effectively being financing programs, building a professional and motivated effectively being crew, making certain the availability of obligatory medicines and technologies, bettering infrastructure, and setting up reliable files programs to monitor growth.
Hon. Oryem reaffirmed the authorities’s dedication to working carefully with WHO to scheme shared effectively being targets. He emphasized that efficient partnerships are obligatory for addressing the complicated effectively being challenges facing the nation and pledged the authorities’s enhance to Dr Mwinga for the length of her tenure.
Dr Mwinga brings over 30 years of medical and public effectively being journey, having served in diversified roles all over Africa and Asia. Dr Mwinga has held diversified WHO positions, together with Acting WHO Country Consultant in Eritrea (2015-2016), WHO Country Consultant to Rwanda (2019-2021) and She was also WHO India Team Leader (2016-2019) for promoting effectively being through the existence direction. Furthermore, she has worked as a paediatric specialist, honorary lecturer, and researcher in Zambia. Expert as a public effectively being specialist and paediatrician, her leadership shall be instrumental in guiding Uganda through its present effectively being challenges and advancing accepted effectively being protection.
