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.…