Uganda Medics want unrestricted access to torture victims

The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda want the Government to grant them unrestricted and timely access to torture victims in detention facilities to save their lives.   The Association officials were responding to recent incidents of torture involving physical bodily harm…

Recipes for better nutrition of children suffering from nodding syndrome

Nutritionists at the Department of Public Health at Lira University are developing recipes to improve the nutrition of children suffering from nodding syndrome in Acholi and Lango sub-regions. The recipes will be from locally available foods that are cheap and accessible to the communities which will contain nutrients that the children lack. It will be…