Right To Health In Uganda Case Study

“After three days of illness at home, I decided to go to Kaladima health centre III, Lamogi sub-county, Amuru district, walking three kilometres to the facility. After waiting for more than six hours, I wasdiagnosed with typhoid – caused by drinking dirty and contaminated water but there was no medicine. A nurse gave me two options: either to pick drugs after two days because typhoid drugs were out of stock, or buy them fromprivate clinics. The drugs, I was told, would cost me at least Shs. 20,000, which is so much; I decided to take the first option. Two days later, I skipped my breakfast of sugarless black tea and some of the previous night’s leftover food - just to be amongthe first patients at the health centre’s drug dispensary. But after queuing for four hours, I was told there were no drugs. Since I had failed to …show more content…
1.3 Objectives of the study

1.3.1 Major Objective

The general objective of the study is to analyse the implication of the decision in CEHURD&ThreeOthers v. Attorney General (Constitutional Petition No. 16 of 2011), on the realization of the right to health in Uganda.

1.3.2 Specific Objectives

i. To explore the legal and socio-economic imperatives that necessitate thejusticiability of the right to health in Ugandan. ii. To analyse the implications of the court ruling of the CEHURD case on the justiciability of right to health in Uganda. iii. To make recommendations on the ideal future of justiciability and jurisprudence of the right to health in Uganda.

1.4 Major Research questions

The study addresses three research questions namely:-
i. What is the legal and socio-economic imperative that necessitates the justiciability of the right to health in the Ugandan? ii. What is the CEHURD case decision impact on the justiciability of the right to health in Uganda? iii. What is the international understanding of the right to health as a human right in international law?

1.5 Scope of the