Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA), in conjunction with the Ministry of Works and Transport – Maritime department, together with the Uganda Red Cross Society, held sensitisation workshops on Search and Rescue from July 21st to 25th in Kanungu, Rukungiri and Kasese districts, respectively.
Coordinating and directing the conducting of search and rescue services in Uganda is one of the functions of UCAA, and it is against this background that the Stakeholders’ sensitisation workshops were held.
Search and Rescue is a service rendered to distressed persons after an unfortunate air or water incident. It is a national obligation which involves the utilisation of available resources to locate, remove and provide initial medical and humanitarian assistance to those in need.
Participants at the workshops included Local government leadership, representatives from the Uganda Police, Security agencies, hospitals, schools, the National Forest Authority, Uganda Prisons, Fisheries , the Uganda Red Cross Society, the media, the Ministry of Works and Transport, Maritime UCAA, among others.
The Resident District Commissioner of Kanungu district, Ambrose Mwesigye Amanyire, the Deputy Resident District Commissioner Rukungiri, Wilberforce Ahimbisibwe and the Resident District Commissioner of Kasese, Lt. Joe Walusimbi officially opened the workshops respectively.
The RDCs lauded UCAA for organising the sensitisation workshops and emphasized the importance of community collaboration in emergency response.
They all urged the public to report emergencies through the proper channels and further urged participants to disseminate the information received during the workshops to other people in the districts.
The leadership in the three districts requested UCAA to organise more sensitisation in the same districts to involve a larger number of district personnel.
UCAA has held similar sensitisation workshops previously in Soroti, Pallisa, Ngora, Moyo, Adjumani, Kabale, Kisoro, Kaabong, Kaberamaido, Isingiro, Ntungamo, Kyotera, Masaka, Mukono, Kalangala, Buvuma, Kamuli, Nakasongola, Buliisa, Packwach and Zombo among other districts.
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