(CEHURD) sues government over unfair hospital charges on covid-19 patients
Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) have sued the Government, seeking it's intervention in the unfair hospital charges against COVID-19 patients, by both governments and public hospitals.
(CEHURD) and Moses Mulumba of Mukono district, through their lawyer Kenneth Ssebabi, have petitioned Mukono high court seeking orders that the Attorney general, the medical and dental practitioner council and minister of health Jane Ruth Achenge to intervene and cause a reduction of the medical fees being charged in treatment of covid 19 patients.
“We want the health minister to regulate and set guidelines on the management of the covid 19 patients in the country,” Kennedy Ssebabi contends.
He added that they have also filed an application for the certificate of emergenc...