{{Soldiers of Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) have completed renovation of a Buwagajjo health centre III, located at Namabu village, Nyenga sub-county in Buikwe district as part of their one week training session in Uganda.}}
The revamped facility was handed over by the director of the EASF coordination mechanism, Rtd. Maj. Gen. Cyrille Ndayirukiye to Uganda’s defence state minister, Gen. Jeje Odongo.
During the formal ceremony on Friday, Ndayirukiye explained that giving the health centre a facelift was part of the activities carried out by a regional contingent of two battalions that included the army, police and civilians who have undergone a training exercise in the area.
The training was dubbed FTX Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) Mashariki Salam 2013.
The team also maintained and opened up new roads in the area.
Also, the force carried out medical outreaches like safe male circumcision, malaria treatment, HIV/AIDS tests and donating of mosquito nets among others.
They were from the ten member states that form the EASF including Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Comoros, Uganda, which hosted the exercise and Sudan, which played the observation role in the training.
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