The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered innovations among scientists paving the way for Uganda‘s first attempt to manufacture a vaccine for a disease. As well, due to scarcity of some therapeutics, chemotherapists began looking into medicines for covid-19. Dr. Monica Musenero, the Minister of Science and Technology who was then the Presidential Advisor on Epidemics says…
You have got to give it up for women in Kyotera district. The fertility rate is over the top. At Kakuuto Health Centre IV in Kyotera district baby deliveries are about six per day which now averages 180 deliveries per month. In 2020 the population of Kyotera district was recorded to be 261,000 people. With…
Princess Diana would dislike having her name on a facility in Soroti for its poor management and failure to serve the poor. Patients in Soroti district can’t access medical services from the Princess Diana Memorial HCIV because management has failed to resolve administrative issues with City Authorities. Now they are opting for private facilities…
Nobel Prize-winning economists Jayati Ghosh and Joseph Stiglitz and the pan-Africa director of Oxfam have praised South Africa’s President Ramaphosa for rejecting a bogus proposal to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 medical products. This was contained in document that emerged from World Trade Organisation negotiations for a COVID-19 intellectual property waiver but was leaked. …
The Government of Belgium has today announced a financial contribution of EUR 4.2 million (approx. 16bn Ugandan shillings) to UNICEF that will see 3,000 vulnerable in and out-of-school girls in Kampala receive support through mentorship, linkages to essential social services and a cash transfer to enable them to transition safely into adulthood. The four-year Belgian…
More than half of the patients who visit Ugandan hospitals have to wait for more than an hour before they can see a health worker only to be told there’s no medicine or equipment to assist in their diagnosis, according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Health. The survey which was carried…
Residents of Nyamiringa village in Bulongo parish, Sembababule district are baying for the blood of George Musheijja Bakulu, the Nyamiringa LCI chairman. They are angry that he was released by police after he was arrested for aggravated defilement. Bakulu, was arrested on Wednesday last week after being caught red-handed defiling a 15-year-old girl. It is said that…
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of digital technologies to keep businesses, healthcare, education and public services running, commented Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy at the Africa-Europe Digital for Development (D4D) Hub Multi-Stakeholder Forum. “These exceptional times have also shown the urgency to invest in Africa’s digital infrastructure and build on Africa’s innovation…
Amuru District Health officials have halted a mass covid-19 vaccination exercise three days after it was started because of low turn up. The District embarked on the second phase of mass covid-19 vaccination on March 15 with the exercise meant to last for a week. This was after the Health Ministry launched the second phase…
Scientists have asked authorities to ensure municipal garbage dumped at landfills is first treated having found heavy metal concentrations in milk from cows grazed along dumpsites. Researchers based at the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) have said that they found the presence of heavy metals in plants such as vegetables that are grown…