The East African Community (EAC) is facing a shortfall of $2.1million to operationalize a proposed aviation medicine centre.
The facility is intended to provide technical support on matters pertaining to aeromedical issues.
The centre will work closely with Cassoa, an oversight body on aviation safety and security in the region.
However, it could not be established as to when the EAC Centre for Aviation Medicine (CAM) would be operational.
The East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) Accounts Committee says only $ 400,000 out of the needed $ 2.5million has been raised for the purpose.
This leaves a shortfall of $2.1million critically needed to make the proposed centre operational.
The $ 400,000 was approved in January this year for the purpose by the EAC Council of Ministers, an authoritative organ which oversees budget matters.
The Eala Committee revealed this in its report on the performance of the aviation sector which was tabled before the House this week.
The report zeroed in on the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (Cassoa),an institution of the East African Community (EAC).
Establishment of the EAC Centre for Aviation Medicine was approved by the Council way back in 2014.
It was first located at Entebbe in Uganda, the Cassoa headquarters, but later relocated to Nairobi.
The relocation followed Kenya's donation of four acres of land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) for the facility.
The EAC intends to make it a centre of excellence on matters of aviation medicine and allied matters.
Eala Accounts Committee chair Kennedy Kalonzo Musyoka inisists the outstanding funds must be found to complete the project.
"Failure to honor the remaining funds will inhibit Cassoa from operationalizing the centre", he told the House in Arusha last week.
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