Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) officials have alleged failure to take action amidst the increasing cases of torture and human rights violations by security operatives. The Human Rights Committee of parliament blamed UHRC officials who were led by the Chairperson, Mariam Wangandya for presenting a report they said was shallow and non-convincing. The committee was inquiring into…
Rotary International is in search of 100 children from Uganda with heart defects to benefit from fully sponsored surgery in India. Dubbed the ‘100 Heart Repaired’, the campaign targets children aged 0-14 years with heart defects that need surgical interventions and will cost the Indian Association in Uganda at least 2.4 billion Shillings. Children who qualify will…
Health rights activists are worried about the low adherence to the Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment among women with disabilities in the Acholi Sub Region. Statistics from the Gulu Women with Disabilities Union-GUWODU, a health and rights group for women living with disabilities operating in Acholi Sub Region supporting persons with disabilities indicate that dozens…
Many vulnerable people including children were omitted from the Uganda Road Safety Act which affects their safety on the road. The omissions would have been covered if Uganda was a signatory to international charters and Regulations on road safety. Researchers from the Trauma, Injuries and Disability (TRIAD) Unit of the Makerere University (MAK) School of Public…
Nakaseke district has a solution to absenteeism of civil servants from their jobs, it has started the system of pay per day of work. Like other districts, Nakaseke faces the problem of chronic absenteeism by the government workers, which has blighted service delivery. Some of the workers report at their duty stations as late as…
13 million people representing 60 percent of the targeted group of 22 million people above 18 years have received one jab while another 2.4 million (32 percent) have got two doses. Records from the health ministry show that as of last week 15. 6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the ongoing…
Medical practitioners who are registered under their umbrella body the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) want the Uganda Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah to champion improvement of Uganda’s healthcare system once he returns from Seattle, USA after treatment. Oulanyah is currently undergoing cancer treatment in a hospital in Seattle City, where he was rushed on February 3,…
At the height of COVID-19, mental treatment units were turned into COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres. As they remain closed the National Mental Referral Hospital in Butabika is overwhelmed now handling 850 to 1,000 in-patients every day which was not the case before the regional mental wards were seized for Covid19 patients. This is beyond the hospital…
The third wave of COVID-19 in Uganda is over and testing of travellers at Entebbe International Airport upon arrival has been stopped effective 26th February. However, pre-departure and pre-arrival are still a requirement. The Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said there are few positive cases. The positivity rate in the country now stands at 1 percent.…
A Swiss-French team from Inserm, in France that includes University of Geneva (UNIGE) scientists has discovered how to trigger apoptosis in leukaemia cells by disrupting their energy maintenance mechanism. The previously unknown mechanism could lead to the development of new therapies for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia, which affects blood and bone marrow cells, a particularly dangerous form of cancer.…