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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The State Minister for Primary Health Care, Ms Margaret Muhanga, has advised men to stop going for Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) paternity testing, saying it is not beneficial to the wellbeing in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not really important [for men to go for DNA paternity tests]. If you have raised your child, that is your child. Biology doesn\u2019t matter. No one is looking for him [the child] after all. So, stay with your child in order to keep harmony. Because if you hear people killing each other because of DNA, why are you even going for it?\u201d Ms Muhanga said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything that you don\u2019t know can\u2019t kill you. If you don\u2019t know that that is not your child, it won\u2019t break your heart. But when you find out, your heart will be broken,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The minister was speaking during the launch of the \u201cPublic health fellowship programme-laboratory leadership programme\u201d in Kampala yesterday.<\/p>\n

Her remarks come amid recent reports of violence in families due to DNA paternity test results, with at least a murder case in Mpigi District last week attributed to negative DNA paternity test results.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the same event yesterday, Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general for health services, said laboratories that are conducting sensitive tests should be more responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs laboratory leaders, you need to know how to communicate results and the right channels to follow. In the DNA [paternity] tests, you don\u2019t just carry out the tests and throw results [to the complaining man] and say \u2018that is not your child\u2019,\u201d Dr Mwebesa said.<\/p>\n

On the programme that was launched, the minister said it would improve efficiency in service delivery and the experience of patients while in hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis programme is good because it includes inhumaneness in the training [of health workers]. People go and train but sometimes they don\u2019t know how to deal with human beings. So, once they are managing laboratories, they are only not trained to manage the laboratories but also how to manage their clients and their workmates,\u201d Ms Muhanga said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. The State Minister for Primary Health Care, Ms Margaret Muhanga, has advised men to stop going for Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) paternity testing, saying it is not beneficial to the wellbeing in the country. \u201cIt is not really important [for men to go for DNA paternity tests]. 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