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MINISTRY OF HEALTH

WORD FROM THE
REGISTRAR’S DESK

Greetings from the Uganda Medical and Dental at least 48 Continuous Professional Development
Practitioners Council. We congratulate Zaddock (CPD) points before you can renew your Annual
Associates for the production of this year’s Practicing License (APL). We have streamlined
Eighteenth Edition of the annual Uganda the process of online renewal of the APL and I
Healthcare Directory which continues to guide urge those Practitioners who haven’t used the
the public and make aware the registered online renewal system to embrace it and use it
Medical and Dental practitioners and the private for renewal of their APLs for the next
health facilities that have been duly licensed to subsequent year which commences every 1st of
practice and operate within this current calendar November and ends on the 31st of December
year. beyond which a surcharge will be levied and the
I hereby advise the public that upon visiting a CPD points accumulated during the year
health facility, they should keenly look out for the deemed invalid.
clinic’s operating license with its current calendar To the Operators of private health units, I urge
year validity as proof of its registry with the you to do self-assessment of your units using
Council. This valid operating license should be the “Self-Regulatory Quality Improvement
prominently displayed in the duly registered system” (SQIS) tool which can be accessed from
clinic's reception space. the Google play store through (SQIS Plus) or
Relatedly, the doctor on duty in a consultation http://sqis.health.go.ug/ and implement the
room shall be required to bear their identification quality improvement plans issued by the system
in form of a name tag and qualification cadre, as following the assessment in order to meet the
such “Dr Kisuule Ivan – Physician”, displayed as a required quality-of-care regulatory standards.
badge on their chest. A patient has the right to Finally, I wish to inform all that the former
know the practitioner treating them while it is the Registrar, Dr. Katumba Ssentongo Gubala
proprietor’s obligation to identify to the public retired honorably in January 2023 and handed
the practitioners working in their medical facility. over to me in an Acting Capacity.
To the Medical and Dental Practitioners, I wish to
remind you that you are required to accumulate

Dr. Kisuule Ivan - Ag. Registrar
Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council

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