Education
He attended Makerere University Medical School where he graduated with the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ) degree.
He attended Makerere University Medical School where he graduated with the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ) degree.
He served as the State Minister for Labor in the Ugandan Cabinet, from February 2009 until May 2011. Prior to that he served as the State Minister of Health for Primary Care, from June 2006 until February 2009. In the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, he was dropped from the cabinet and was replaced by Mwesigwa Rukutana.
Doctor Otala was born on 24 October 1968, in Iyolwa Village, in Tororo District.
He is currently pursuing a masters degree in public health, from Makerere University School of Public Health. From 1999 until 2000, Doctor Otala worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Medreich Sterilab Pharmaceutical Company, through Surgipharm (Uganda) Limited.
He then worked as a medical officer at the Association for the Cooperation between Ticino, Switzerland and Uganda, from 2000 until 2001. During the same period he worked as the Deputy District Director of Health for "West Budama South", the same area that he represented in parliament from 2006 until 2011.
From 2002 until 2004, he worked as a medical consultant with Give Us Wings Children"s Project, a Ugandan charitable non-government organization (non-governmental organization).
From 2002 until 2005, Doctor Otala served as the Medical Director of Tororo District Hospital. In the 2011 national elections, he lost that seat to Jacob Oboth, an Independent politician, who is the incumbent. Doctor Otala was appointed State Minister of Health for Primary Care in 2006.
On 16 February 2009, Doctor Otala was appointed State Minister in the Ministry of Labor.
In a cabinet reshuffle on 27 May 2011, he was dropped from the cabinet.
In 2006, he entered politics, contesting for the parliamentary seat in his home area on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party ticket.
He also served as the elected Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for "West Budama South" Constituency, Tororo District, from 2006 until 2011. During the 2011 national elections, he lost to Jacob Marksons Oboth, an Independent politician, who is now the incumbent Member of Parliament.