{UAH} The only cancer treatment machine in this country broke. It’s a sign of something worse. - The Washington Post

In the 2016 national budget, 257 billion Ugandan shillings, or more than $77 million, was allocated for upkeep and other expenses related to his residence.

Meanwhile, the country's only radiotherapy machine for cancer treatment has broken after years of sputtering. The machine, has been scheduled for replacement for three years, but the health minister cited "funding challenges" that prevented progress, according to a local newspaper. A new machine, and bunkers to house it, would cost roughly 15 percent of Museveni's personal residence budget.

China donated the machine to Uganda in 1995. 

The frustrating story doesn't end there. While the machine was at Mulago Hospital, administrators there misplaced key paperwork that would allow the machine to be sent back to China for proper disposal. As such, more than $660,000 is necessary for Uganda to build its own safe disposal site for the radioactive material.

Along with other African governments in the Abuja Declaration of 2001, Uganda pledged to spend 15 percent of its annual budget on health. In the past financial year, that number was only 7 percent.

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Brian M. Kwesiga