Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm

Pharmacist.
Ardent Ugandan Patriot.

President Emeritus KIU Pharmacy Students' Association~KIUPSA @KIUPSAofficial

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

Surely grateful @KIUPSAofficial 😊... keep pushing to heights 📌

[KIUPSA @KIUPSAofficial]

Congratulations 🎉 H.E ,Daniel Michael Funda upon bagging the degree🎓👨‍🎓.We cherish the solid foundations you laid during your tenure as KIUPSA President and without a doubt believe you are a great addition to already amazing group of Pharmacists out there. Best wishes💊🥼🏥⚕️ 🎉

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@NewtonAllan6 lobbying for pharmacists out here😂 no more excuse to whosever ain't settling 🤐😂

[ALTON 🩺 @NewtonAllan6]

To the newly graduated MBChB Doctors:

Get yourself a pharmacist and date him/her. At least you will be assured of surviving since your MBChB turned into a “lakizale”.

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@NewtonAllan6 😂😂😂
Violence reaching it's peak

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

staying consistent not for perfection but for progress b'se you are a work in progress.
You are worth every effort, time & transformation towards your personal growth, aren't you?

Happy new year of endless possibilities and accomplishments🎉 ✨🎊

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

Each new year is a reminder that there’s always room for improvement and new experiences waiting to unfold

A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Make every moment count in the New Year.

Let each time be a gift to rise, rebuild and realign with your purpose,

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

Congratulations Mr. President and the entire KIUPSA Executive Elect, to more heights, to more vibrancy ✊🎉

[KIUPSA @KIUPSAofficial]

Julius Nabigwa, a 3rd-year Bachelor of Pharmacy student is the KIUPSA president elect ! Intending to use his new position to promote research, digitalisation, and inter-university engagements, among others,his election brings in new and warmer blood in the association leadership

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@AshabaRitah11 @KIUPSAofficial @gilbert_baka @rhidah17 i surely have🤝🙏🏽 thanks for the reminder 😊

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

Delighted for the recognition of the Leadership impact of work, I together with my team put along @KIUPSAofficial #KIUPSAdinner

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@NatambaKenneth @KIUPSAofficial @gilbert_baka @rhidah17 Always bro🤝

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@JasperMandolo @KIUPSAofficial @gilbert_baka @rhidah17 Humbled comrade🙏🏽

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

❤️✅

[Masinde Splendour @MasindeSpl123]

Hello AMR stewards
Did you know that antimicrobial resistance is the 5th Global public health threat affecting humanity
AMR is preventable and we all have a role to play
#NationalAMRContest24
#UGYouthAgainstAMR

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

MEDICAL INTERNS: To Pay or Not to Pay.

I’ve seen raging debates on whether interns should be paid or not.

I think it’s a wrong debate.

We don’t really pay interns in this country. We give them a subsistence allowance.

We basically hand them enough resources to keep them alive (barely) so they can keep millions of Ugandans alive.

Interns and to a lesser extent SHOs are the backbone of Uganda’s public healthcare sector.

It’s not unusual to hear of medical interns who log more than 100 hour work weeks. Back to Back to Back.

In some hospitals in far-flung districts, these interns are usually the only ones on duty. They run the hospitals while their supervisors (hospital superintendents) chill in malwa joints.

We call this learning and say the interns should be grateful and even pay for the opportunity.

The only learning happening in most of these settings is learning how to swim at deep ends because that’s where they’re thrown. ALL THE TIME!

They’re expected to navigate the raging waves of drug stock-outs, shortage of gloves, blood, equipment, name it.

They see their patients succumb to curable illnesses because of lack of antibiotics that cost less than $10 a dose. They hurt, roll over their deceased patients, dust themselves off and come to fight another day. It’s a brutal grind. Emotionally debilitating too. The sense of helplessness is overwhelming.

I can’t imagine having this compounded by constant calls from landlords and hunger pangs because they don’t have any cash to support them.

It’s understandable when the government says it’s embracing austerity measures and thus needs to prioritize its expenses. But to start by cutting off the lifeblood of a nation is a strange approach.

What do we lose, for instance, if we reduce the number of @Parliament_Ug sittings by half and reallocate those funds to areas like this? It’s not like those debates of theirs are moving the Ugandan socio-economic needle that much.

As an austerity measure, we can have less of them in the short term and keep Ugandans alive.

Then you have the budget that supports external healthcare to the higher political classes. This alone can pay interns for a few years.

What does it say that we have some Ugandans with government funded Cadillac healthcare and others with nothing to write home about? Isn’t it time we went back and revised those allocations in an equitable manner?

The other alternative would be a full embrace of co-pay in government hospitals.

One suspects that this has political ramifications that the government wouldn’t wanna see in the short to medium term, especially with 2026 around the corner.

It’s the same reason the National Health Insurance Scheme might never see the light of day.

But ultimately, it will have to come to us tasking anyone looking to access public healthcare to chip in something. A dollar here, a chicken and goat there, a post training income tax break for medical workers etc.

It can’t simply fall on only interns to sacrifice “because they are learning”.

That’s just bad policy. Lazy, crude policy actually.

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@sumayashilla @CanaryMugume @mkainerugaba @AndrewMwenda @nbstv 😂

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@KWALTER76266442 "UNTIL THE LION LEARNS TO WRITE, EVERY STORY WILL GLORIFY THE HUNTER"
We gotta cook for ourselves

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

Well said!!!

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

"Medical interns are protesting because they aren’t being deployed, only a small group and the Ministry of Health is saying, the reason we aren’t deploying is because we don’t have resources. Give us more money and we shall deploy all of them. Police officers are saying, we were promised a pay rise, but they are saying we have been duped, they are only getting a small fraction of that which was promised, where is the other money that was promised to us? Will the public understand us when we are spending Shs5Bn to go to Gulu, Mbale, Mbarara and Central Region? They will not understand because it doesn’t make sense at all. It is wastage," remarked @JoelSsenyonyi .

[Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda @PharmacistsUg]

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[KIUPSA @KIUPSAofficial]

Congratulations 🎉 H.E ,Daniel Michael Funda upon bagging the degree🎓👨‍🎓.We cherish the solid foundations you laid during your tenure as KIUPSA President and without a doubt believe you are a great addition to already amazing group of Pharmacists out there. Best wishes💊🥼🏥⚕️ 🎉

[Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda @PharmacistsUg]

What We're Reading This Week! 📚

Ugandan study highlights challenges in medicine access, quality, and disposal. Key recommendations: adopt One-Health approach, strengthen supply chains, implement universal insurance, and build capacity.
https://t.co/RpImqJ11Rh

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

@gilbert_baka Atte ani?

[Dr. Funda - Pharmacist. BPharm @FundaDaniel]

When you find a supposed to be informed law maker of the same profession he is seeming uninformed about, only suffocates the future we hit at

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

I think the mischief is in the planning and I think they are crucifying the Ministry of Health wrongly, it is a financial, education and planning issue. There are 17 Universities that train medical workers. Kampala International University produces half of these. As somebody who trained, I am not so sure how you can have 500 students in a class, both for dentistry, nursing and midwifery. We need to interrogate how they are doing it. Do they have the requisite number of lecturers or we are getting half baked personnel? -@DrAyumeCharles (Koboko Municipality)