China’s tech giant ZTE has announced it is installing a security system, free of charge, at Uganda’s biggest hospital to prevent the stealing of newly-born babies.
Speaking at a brief ceremony, Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said at Mulago National Referral Hospital, that the surveillance cameras will be critical in stopping the crime that has troubled the hospital in recent years.
“The stealing of babies has been worrying us. We need to track activities in the wards,” she said.
She recognised ZTE’s partnership with parliament on its security system and she thanked the Chinese company for “supporting mothers in this country.”
It is a ZTE’s social welfare project for the Ugandan mothers, he said.
EEvery year an average of 33,000 babies are born at the hospital, while perpetrators take advantage of the crowded environment to steal babies.
