Uganda, Feb. 1 -- Following an uptick of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Uganda, public health experts have called for the National Insurance Scheme to finance the treatment of such ailments.

President Museveni has so far not assented to the National Health Insurance Bill passed by parliament but researchers at Makerere's University's School of Public Health (MakSPH), in conjunction with Harvard School of Public Health, have suggested that NCDs should be in financing plans of the government.

"NCDs aren't being financed well because we have been paying attention to maternal health, infectious diseases, and child health. And we see that NCDs have been making a steep rise," Prof Fredrick Ssengooba, a lecturer in the Department of Healt...