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At the Dei BioPharma campus in Matugga, rows of laboratories and production units are being built with one goal, to shift Uganda from importing medicines to manufacturing them. It’s a bold gamble in a global industry dominated by a handful of powerful countries, and one that carries implications far beyond health. For government officials who toured the facility ahead of …

Kampala/Matugga – Troubling signs are emerging from Uganda’s flagship pharmaceutical and biotechnology giant, Dei Biopharma, as reports confirm a massive exodus of top scientists and senior managers from the company’s state-of-the-art vaccine and drug manufacturing complex in Kigogwa–Matugga. The Dei Biopharma manufacturing facility in Matugga, near Kampala, Once hailed as a landmark investment that would anchor Africa’s healthcare self-sufficiency, the …