Beneficiaries of PDM funds often spend nights in neighboring Arua and Koboko districts, awaiting their payments. - Jennifer Driwaru

We are losing people; we buried a 19-year-old yesterday; today we are burying two people, and the cause is the liver. The liver got rotten; the liver got cirrhosis. So as I talk now, in two days, we are burying three people with similar complications,”

Cirrhosis is the scarring (fibrosis) of the liver resulting from prolonged liver damage. This scar tissue disrupts the liver’s ability to function properly. Often referred to as end-stage liver disease, cirrhosis occurs after other stages of liver damage caused by conditions like hepatitis.

We must take responsibility for keeping the ambulances running to ensure we can provide help to the community."