Public Service delivery is one of the cardinal objectives of Governance but Uganda has somehow failed to achieve due to our failure to deliver the basic services to our citizenship.
This is because the state powers and economic resources are controlled by political elites, who are using them as instruments to guarantee the regime’s survival and maintain political control over society.
The Local Governments have also found it difficult to make it easier for the citizens in terms of service delivery due to inadequate funds,limited human capital and uncoordinated planning.
In this article, we are going to look in to the different service delivery in sectors like education, hospitals, roads and employment.
Education.
In education the service delivery in this sector is still lacking. A good example can be derived from all government aided schools. The responsible departments and directorates under this ministry have failed to equip these schools with the basic things that could facilitate the students learning process.
From learners books, science practical apparatus inadequate numbers of teachers, to the poor classroom structures that are not not favourable for the concentration of students because some of their classrooms are not roofed, no windows, no doors and some have no standing structures a tall .
This has made millions of young citizens suffer as they are acquiring education in a very uncomfortable way which is highly increasing the poor performance of students in the National Examinations.
According to the Ministry of Education, Uganda has more than 30,000 pre-elementary, elementary and for secondary institutions spread throughout Uganda. The elementary level has more than 59% or more than 20,000 schools as of 2017 that are Government owned and supported.
Remember that Uganda was once declared as the 6th country with a good, well arranged and organized education sector, but of which is no longer the case because of our failure to improve the sector as it was in it’s genesis.
Hospitals
Most of the Hospitals in the country still experience rampant drug stock-outs, in addition of lacking the basic medical equipments to work on some diseases.
In some hospitals, nurses are seriously mistreating the patients and forcing them to pay for the free services at these facilities.
According to the Ministry of Health The number of the health facilities (Public, private and private not for profit) in Uganda now totals to 6,937.
45% (3133) of health facilities are Government owned, 14.44% (1,002) are private and not for profit while the remaining 40.29% (2795) are private for profit and 0.10% (7) community owned facilities. hospitals are now just structures but services delivered are not appetizing.
Roads:
Uganda has roads that are seriously very poor and not renovated. This is mostly affecting the chain of production since farmers and business men still face these challenges in transporting their goods to the final buyers or market.
Uganda has a total road network of about 159,366KM, comprising of 20,854Km (13%) National roads:38,603 KM(24%)district roads 19959 Km (13%) urban roads and 79947Km (50%) community access roads.
The fact is that most of these roads are in a very bad state especially those in urban areas and other trading centres.
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