Uganda's only Cancer treatment machine is Broke

There are no term limits on Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, after he did away with those pesky obstacles in 2005. This year marks his 30th in office. In the 2016 national budget, 257 billion Ugandan shillings, or more than $77 million, was allocated for upkeep and other expenses related to his residence.
Meanwhile, the country's only radiotherapy machine for cancer treatment has broken after years of sputtering. The machine, once housed at Mulago Hospital, the country's largest, and recently moved to the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), has been scheduled for replacement for three years, but the health minister cited "funding challenges" that prevented progress, according to a local newspaper. A new machine, and bunkers to house it, would cost roughly 15 percent of Museveni's personal residence budget. China donated the machine to Uganda in 1995. It broke down regularly over the past five years, and an independent team measured its radiation levels and found that they were significantly below the required minimum for adequate treatment. In 2013, after an abnormally long 18 years of use, replacement equipment was bought. It seems that funding for the bunkers is the real holdup. While hospital officials continue to ask the government to expedite the process, patients have been told they may have to wait a year or longer before radiation treatment can resume.
Along with other African governments in the Abuja Declaration of 2001, Uganda pledged to spend 15 percent of its annual budget on health. In the past financial year, that number was only 7 percent.