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The
district has 25 health units of which 22 are government-
and three are NGO-owned. The government owns Kitgum
Hospital while the Catholic Church owns St. Joseph’s
Hospital located three kilometers east of town.
Other units are smaller and scattered all over
the district.
The
most common diseases are malaria, Respiratory
Track Infections (RTI), diarrhea, intestine worms,
pneumonia, skin diseases, eye infections, common
injuries, anemia and malnutrition.
Only
48 percent of the people of Kitgum drink safe
water from bore holes, shallow wells and protected
springs. There are 259 functioning boreholes and
174 non-functioning ones. There are only 72 shallow
wells.
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has 172 primary schools with a total enrollment
of 97,810. Of these 53,752 are boys while 44,058
are girls. A total of 9, 232 are orphans while
2,772 are disabled. Government-aided primary schools
total 164 while private-owned are eight.
Kitgum
Technical Institute and Kitgum Core Primary Teachers’
College are the only two tertiary institutions
in the district. There are seven government-aided
secondary schools: Palabek Secondary School, Kitgum
High School, Y.Y. Okot Memorial College, Archbishop
Janani Luwum Memorial College, Padibe Secondary
School Padibe Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary
School and Gen. Tito Vocational Secondary School.
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Kitgum
is almost exclusively an agricultural district.
The land available for subsistence farming In
Kitgum is 3,200 sq. km, producing mainly food
crops such as beans, pigeon peas, millet, simsim,
cassava and sorghum. Cash crops grown in Kitgum
are cotton, rice, maize and tobacco. 53,103 hectares
are forest reserves, which belong to both the
Central government and the district.
Most
animals in Kitgum were rustled away during the
insurgency. At the moment there are 3,946 indigenous
and only 35 exotic (crossed) heads of cattle in
Kitgum. Some of these were procured through the
government restocking programme while individuals
buy from neighboring district like Kotido, Lira,
Apac and the Sudan.
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