Kibaale district has run out of COVID-19 Vaccines amidst an increasing number of people turning up at health facilities for vaccination. The district received 4,776 doses of Astra-Zeneca and 1,455 doses of Sinovac from the Health Ministry recently. Godfrey Timbihurira, the Kibaale District Health Officer-DHO told Uganda Radio Network on Tuesday that they ran out…
The Joint Medical Store (JMS), a joint venture of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) and the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB) is setting up a medical oxygen plant with a capacity to manufacture up to 150 cylinders per hour. Dr Bildard Baguma, the Executive Director JMS said that they are investing one million US Dollars…
The ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise has been slowed by the distances that residents have to travel to the gazetted vaccination centres in Lira City. The city with a population of over 10,000 people, has only six vaccination points; Ayago Primary School and PAG General Hospital located in City East Division and Lira University Teaching Hospital,…