Medical doctors have asked the government to screen private health facilities and allow those that have the prerequisite staff and equipment to recruit graduate doctors into internships. Making the call amidst endless strikes by medical interns over allowances and conditions of work over the years, Dr. Frank Asiimwe Rubabinda, the President of the Association of…
The Ministry of Health has launched a Satellite Laboratory at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital. The facility, constructed under the Uganda COVID-19 Response and Preparedness Project is expected to improve clinical research at the hospital upon its completion. The construction will cost four billion Shillings while another 1.3 Billion Shillings will be spent on equipping…
As the country continues to wait for the establishment of a National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda, IRA, is moving a step towards responding to the gaps created by the lack of the scheme. For more than 10 years, it has been a back-and-forth situation regarding universal health insurance platform,…
Obstetricians and Gynecologists have joined the push to demand for immediate deployment and payment of medical interns warning government not to demand accountability for women dying in labor when they further delay. Dr. Othiniel Musana, the President of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Uganda (AOGU) told URN in an interview that medical…
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have expressed concern over restrictions by global HIV and Hepatitis drugs manufacturer barring other pharmaceutical companies from replicating their medicines to make generics. Speaking to journalists during a press conference on Wednesday, Kenneth Mwehonge, the Executive Director HEPs Uganda said drugs made by Gilead, an American Biopharmaceutical company are too expensive…