Harriet Kizza, 56 has been working with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA since 2011, desilting drainage channels in different parts of the City. She wakes up as early as 5am to prepare for work and by the latest 6am, she’s at her station of work to begin the day. Her supervisors draft a plan for desilting…
An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, medical scientists have warned. Fossil fuels are responsible for most of the harmful emissions that are linked to acute and chronic sickness, according to the…
More than two years after the world came to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation has launched a plan that seeks to end the global emergency this year. According to the plan shared by the UN health agency, the pandemic could be history at the end of the year if…
Ten medical workers in Nama sub-county in Mukono district who were involved in the mass polio vaccination campaign in January this year are yet to receive their allowances. The Sub-county Chairperson, Johnbosco Isabirye, says that the ten health workers were denied their allowances despite conducting the exercise. He says that the medical workers brought the…
The Ministries of Health and Education have resorted to vaccinating learners as the best way to control the spread of COVID-19 in learning institutions due to non-compliance by schools to feed data into the school surveillance system. Prior to the re-opening of schools, the government drafted guidelines aimed at creating safe environments for schools amidst…
The mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign in several parts of Amuru District has suffered a setback because of the start of the new farming season, health officials have disclosed. According to the health officials, the most eligible people who are predominantly farmers have shunned the vaccination exercise to attend to their garden work following the return…
The private sector under the Malaria free Uganda council has rolled out a campaign dumped “Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative” aimed at ending Malaria by 2030. The campaign brings together private businesses and leaders to fight Malaria in conjunction with the Ministry of Health. Ken Mugisha, the Chairperson of Malaria free Uganda, says that their…
About 700 Uganda health workers who were deployed in COVID-19 treatment units in National and Regional Referral hospitals under the Emergency Response arrangement have to leave work now. The Ministry of Health hired up to 700 health workers under the emergency response to help in the fight against COVID-19. These included anaesthesiologists, lab professionals and…
As cases of of COVID-19 decline, most of Uganda’s hospitals have closed units that were designated to treat patients or COVID-19 treatment units. At the Mulago National Referral Hospital, now patients with severe COVID-19 are being forced to share wards with other critically ill patients following the closure of the COVID-19 treatment Unit. While Uganda and…
Fully vaccinated travellers including truck drivers are no longer required to present negative COVID-19 PCR test results before entering Uganda, according to the Health Ministry and in compliance with the East African Community. Dr. Henry G. Mwebesa, the Director-General of Health Services communicated this position in his March 28, 2022 letter to the health officers…