The UK Government – through UNICEF – has procured a Pressure Swing Absorption Oxygen Plant in Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital, to increase the oxygen producing capacity of the 200-bed facility and other lower-level facilities in seven neighbouring districts in central Uganda. The Oxygen plant installed by UNICEF in February 2022 was today unveiled and officially…
African governments and regional economic blocs have been urged to increase funding for Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) and create an enabling environment for technology adoption. This would transform livelihoods and enable the continent to benefit from modern agricultural innovations such as biotechnology including gene-editing and other emerging technologies for sustainable economic growth. This call…
With the increasing number of young learners leaving O’level, the Ministry of Education and Sports has cautioned against enrolling those below 18-years of age into health training institutions. Available information indicates that many students are completing the Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE between 14 and 15 years of age. After passing English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology,…
An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and could trigger larger outbreaks, particularly of measles affecting millions of children in 2022, according to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF. The risk for large outbreaks has increased as communities…
Travellers moving in and out of Uganda, are no longer required to have a COVID-19 PCR(polymerase chain reaction) test, as long as they are fully vaccinated. The requirement still stands for those who are not vaccinated as well as those who took only a single jab of the COVID-19 vaccine. The waiver was announced by…
The Government procured 3.4 Million covid-19 vaccines, this is according to records from the Ministry of Health. A total of 44,734,030 vaccines were received, but 3.4 million were procured using gov’t funds. The remaining 41 million doses of vaccines were donations from the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, China, and Denmark among others. According to…
With fourteen to sixteen people still succumbing to malaria every day, the Ministry of Health (MOH) signed a new $40 million worth grant on Friday to popularize malaria prevention strategies in communities where prevalence is still very high. Dr. Jimmy Opigo who heads the Malaria Control programme in the ministry told journalists that unlike before…
The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (GPHC) – an independent coalition of global leaders and former heads of state, including John Mahama, Former President of Ghana – proposed a bold path forward in a new Call to Action to dramatically strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response through a new Pandemic Treaty. The panel aims to…
Women in the Busoga region want screening for both Cervical Cancer and Breast Cancer extended to lower health facilities. They say that the lack of screening services has left many women to die silently without intervention. At Jinja regional Hospital, breast and cervical cancer screening is conducted weekly clinic on Wednesdays. Suspected cancer cases from the…
A team of biologists led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered, for breast cancer, a factor that explains the spread of metastases to the bones. When cancer cells break away from a primary tumor and migrate to other organs, this is called «metastatic cancer». The organs affected by these metastases, however, depend in…