Uganda Baati has embarked on giving back to the communities in which it operates through their latest Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that is focusing on Cervical Cancer and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
On Friday the company held a one-day health camp at their main showroom in Industrial Area, Bugoloobi.
According to Immaculate Akiror, the Head of Corporate and Marketing at Uganda Baati budgets about sh600M annually for their CSR cause.
Akiror said that the roofing company has four pillars in which they give back to the community and these include health, environment, education and shelter.
“Every quarter in the year, we carry out a CSR campaign; today we are doing Cervical Cancer screening and the Non-Communicable Diseases,” Akiror said.
She said these CSR campaigns cut across all their nine branches in the country.
According to Dr. Irene Arinaitwe of Chandria Medical Choice, the turn up was overwhelming and warned the public against lifestyles that are the leading cause of Non-Communicable Diseases in Uganda especially among the corporates.
She advised organizations to introduce exercise programs and screening programs to curb down on NCDs.
NCDs also known as chronic or lifestyle diseases are diseases that are not transferable from one person to another either through direct contact or vectors.
The common and dangerous NCDs include cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases such chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma.
Others are sickle cell disease, mental diseases and injuries and violence.
Official figures indicate that NCDs account for 70% of all deaths globally annually. In Uganda, NCDs account for 40% of all death annually.
