Educationists in Kotido District have asked parents to give pregnant teenagers a second chance when schools reopen. They argue that a second chance will always give a girl child an opportunity to complete her education after delivery. Benson Katyango Boeing, a Senior Education Officer of Kotido district says girls are at the risk of dropping…
The closure of courts and lack of public transport during Covid19 Lockdowns delayed justice for suspected law breakers. The total lockdown that was announced by president Yoweri Museveni, in March 2020 lasted up to July of the same year and the country started operating at half scale. The total lockdown caused closure of courts while the partial lockdown…
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…
Christine Nantambi, 26, a housewife and mother of two children had spent six years in a peaceful cohabitation marriage with her fiancé Ivan Kasule, 29, a resident of Quarter Zone, Kanyanya Parish in Kawempe Division. Once the pandemic broke out last year and a lockdown was announced everything in her marriage changed for the worst. In…
Amuru COVID-19 Task Force has resolved to divert part of the Covid-19 vaccine doses meant for teachers to vaccinate Boda-Boda cyclists in the district. This follows a directive by the Resident District Commissioner Geoffrey Oceng Osborn to the health department to vaccinate the riders who are considered frontline public service persons. In the letter dated…
The Kitgum District COVID 19 Taskforce has embarked on tracing migratory farming communities to test and vaccinate against covid-19. The farming communities always migrate into the wilderness of Tim Palukok and Tim Lipan hunting grounds that stretches into parts of the Sub Counties of Namukora and Orom with the South Sudan borders. The migratory farmers…
Persons vaccinated using the the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine might need to get a booster dose so as to get 100 percent protection against severe disease according to findings from Phase III trials. The trials that were carried out by the manufacturers of the vaccine show that the single-dose vaccine provides strong and long…
Mityana Hospital will have to wait longer as the Ministry of Health seeks to recruit a contractor to repair the non-functioning dilapidated X-ray and Ultra Sound machines, three years since they broke down. The hospital was rehabilitated in 2010 and commissioned early this year but has been operating without an X-ray and Ultra Sound…
Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first, which arrived on September 6, comprised 647,080 doses of Moderna, bringing to…
The Ministry of Health says the 1 ,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine it has received from the US government will be administered only within Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono. Dr. Alfred Driwale, the Program Manager of Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization says the Pfizer vaccine doses will be limited to the vaccination centres…