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,…
Esther Makula writes for Chimp Reports and in this interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about lack of oxygen in hospitals during the pandemic and how this led to deaths. Esther Makula’s interview was done under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat…
Ben Musanje works with Radio Sapientia in his interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about his story about a spike in torture cases recorded by the African Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims which was published by HEJNU. Ben’s interview with HEJNU was under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which…
Ruth Nazziwa works for the Vision Group and contributes to one of its publications Bukedde print, a daily Ugandan newspaper and writes in Luganda. In her interview with the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights she talks about one of the stories she wrote on human rights. She…
Flavia Nassaka, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network (URN) has written extensively about the COVID-19 pandemic and in this interview by the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights she talks about the exorbitant fees that private companies charged COVID-19 patients. Here is Flavia Nassaka’s interview where she talks…
Joseph Kato, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network, URN, talks about one of the stories he covered under the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on human rights, in particular women’s and…
Ann Kajumba works with UBC, the state owned broadcaster and her was about a story which explored children’s rights to vaccines and included efforts by the government to keep learners in class despite the lockdown. She pointed the government’s efforts in keeping learners in class. This interview by Ann Kajumba was produced as one of the…
Victor Kiyimba is one of the people who will live to remember Uganda’s first Covid19 lockdown which was intended to control the spread of the contagious disease. 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…