DAMNING VERDICT! Inside Medical and Dental Council’s Systemic Failures, Poor Oversight & Procurement Mess as Watchdog Fails to Watch
The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council is under fire after an audit revealed systemic leadership failures, poor financial oversight, and inadequate digital infrastructure. Despite its mandate to regulate health standards, the council struggles with basic accounting and data management practices.
Why it matters
Failures in a medical regulatory body can lead to compromised professional standards and public health risks if unqualified practitioners are not properly monitored.
The findings have raised serious questions about leadership under Council Chairperson Prof. Joel Okullo and Registrar Dr. Charles Tusiime.
The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC), the very institution mandated to protect Ugandans from unqualified medical practitioners and enforce professional standards in the country’s health sector, has itself come under heavy scrutiny after the Auditor General exposed glaring weaknesses in its operations, raising serious questions about leadership under Council Chairperson Prof. Joel Okullo and Registrar Dr. Charles Tusiime.
Successive Auditor General reports covering the financial years ending June 30, 2024 and June 30, 2025 paint the picture of a regulator struggling to regulate itself despite its statutory responsibility to supervise medical and dental practice, enforce ethics, discipline practitioners and safeguard the public from abuse and malpractice.
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