Fossil fuels increasing non-communicable diseases in Kampala – KCCA

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has revealed that the increasing cases of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Uganda’s capital are driven by fossil fuels.

This comes at a time when researchers from Makerere University linked 7,257 deaths in the past four years to air pollution.

Speaking during the launch of Supertech, a new technology meant to reduce carbon emissions by actors that use fossil fuels when inserted inside the fuel tank, Ms Olive Namazi, the KCCA minister for public health and environment said, “the atmosphere in the city has been beleaguered with harmful…