THE BALCONY

Cancer is at the helm of the killer diseases in the world.  Mostly in the developing countries, Uganda not being excluded. Cancer deserves the attention that is put on AIDS writes Moses Muwulya. Opportunistic and brave Ugandans are now taking it as good avenue to make money from the desperate non informed Ugandans who either have cancer patients, or want to mitigate the risks of contracting the deadly disease. Because many people are green about this ailement, many people have come up to claim that they cure Cancer and we have seen many patients leaving conventional treating centres and opt for such doctors. Well, some of them might be genuine, but we cannot rule out the fact that some are questionable. It’s therefore a task that goes to the Ministry Of Health and Uganda Cancer Institute to senstiise the public about cancer. We understand the causes to cancer are many. Let the public gets to know these causes. If there means of mitigating the risks let the public get

Mr Alfred Okot Okidi, Permanent Secretary Ministry Water and Environment hands over the national wetland atlas to Minister Ssempijja. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA  BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA As Uganda joined the entire world to celebrate the World Wetlands Day, it was  highly noted that weak laws and insufficient resources are affecting the fight against wetland protection in Uganda. Speaking at the national celebrations which were held on Thursday at Bulakkati playground, Lukaya Town Council in Kalungu District, Mr Collins Oloya, commissioner wetlands, said the environment and natural resources department that is responsible for wetlands conservation is understaffed and poorly funded. “In addition to the low funding, there have been delays in finalisation of the wetland bill and currently there is contradicting provisions of some laws including land ownership issues,” Mr Oloya said. Mr Oloya said poor and weak coordination of institutions responsible