Health Professionals Offer Guidance to Government Regarding Medical Outreach Initiatives

Health experts are urging the government to initiate medical camps at health centers, staffed with teams of healthcare professionals, as a means of alleviating the daily pressures on healthcare services,” advised Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, the acting Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital. She made this call to action during a two-day AMDA Caravan Medical…

Children with Spina bifida, hydrocephalus denied access to hospitals during lockdown

In early June 2021, President Yoweri Museveni banned private and public transport as part of the strict lockdown re-imposed in an effort to curtail the spread of Covid-19 variants. The newest lockdown measures for 42days prohibited transportation inside and across country districts, even in Kampala but the only exceptions to the rule were vehicles transporting…

Uganda receives more COVID-19 vaccine donations from France and Belgium

Uganda through the National Medical Stores has this Thursday afternoon received an additional consignment of 655,053 doses of Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Of these, 501,153 doses are donations from the French government while 153,900 doses are from the Belgian government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines from the French government to Uganda after the first…