National Drug Authority (NDA) has been Awarded and recognized for the fifth time as the best Visionary Health Government Regulatory agency for the year 2022.
NDA’s performance in delivering on its core regulatory functions has benefited the country by improving access and availability of safe and quality drugs (human and veterinary) and other healthcare products to the citizens.
According to Public Relations Officer NDA Fredrick Ssekyana, some of NDA’s consolidated achievements that led to the award include having a quality control laboratory which is rated at maturity Level 4 as per the WHO Global Bench-marking 4-tier classification of National Medicines Regulatory Agencies.
“This means our testing laboratory for medicines and other healthcare products is credible and internationally recognised in providing accurate test results,” Ssekyana said.
He said this during the 10th Visionaries Awards event held under the theme “Celebrating Ten Years of Uganda Vision 2040 implementation towards Socio-economic transformation of Uganda,” at Serena hotel in Kampala.
Ssekyana said that in the East African Community NDA is rated the centre of excellence for good manufacturing practice inspection. Its an achievement they have maintained by pursuing accession to the Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention Scheme.
“This is our vision with respect to strengthening the NDA pharmaceutical inspectorate system,” he said.
The Minister for Public Service Wilson Muluri Mukasa said the award NDA received should inspire all organisations towards business and individual excellence.
“Government of Uganda is still committed to providing a secure investment climate that will attract investment and spur national transformation. Every effort will also be made to build the required infrastructure to support the investment process that will facilitate the creation of jobs, wealth and improved well being of our people,” he said.
Muluri added, “Our focus should be on business process re-engineering, which is aimed at facilitating easing of the cost of doing business between government and the private sector through the Service Uganda One Stop Centres.”
He said, government will continue to support companies and manufacturers that embrace science and technology as it forms the back born for Uganda’s future economic prosperity.
Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Francis Mwebesa said the government has been working tirelessly to mitigate the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic through widespread vaccination, as support to affected businesses in the country.
“Government will continue to support Ugandans to take advantage of the rising global and regional prices caused by the economic shocks during the global COVID-19 pandemic and boost our export and household earnings,” he said.
“Government has started implementing the Parish Development Model -so the 39 percent of the households at subsistence level may join the money economy,” Mwebesa added.
The government is enhancing socio-economic transformation by redirecting resources towards wealth and job creation, industrialization, export promotion and other areas with high returns on investment.
“The government carries a special promise which will help Ugandans acquire more wealth- the youth and women will have more opportunities to unleash their potential to initiate and expand business enterprises for shared prosperity with support from various government projects like Parish Development Model (PDM) among others,” Mwebesa said..
He said the government will continue to ensure peace and stability through enhanced security and macroeconomic stability as key foundations for growth and development.
