Three immigration officers who were arrested earlier this month on charges of trafficking cocaine, a banned psychotropic substance, have been further remanded until April 3, 2023, due to the absence of their case file. Entebbe Chief Magistrate Stella Maris Amabillis remanded the trio further after State Attorney Annet Janet Nabulobi informed the court that she…
Uganda has made tremendous surgical advances with innovations that focus on minimal invasive techniques, new technologies and instruments but the clients – many Ugandans are still seeking surgical procedures abroad. This is on the backdrop of a big surgical burden, 40 percent surgical diseases, with number of surgeons still low compared to the population. Uganda has only…
Uganda will on Wednesday start screening all individuals coming into the country through Uganda – Tanzania border following a confirmed case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in the neighboring country. Speaking to URN on Wednesday, Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Senior Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Health said top officials in the ministry held a meeting…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has revealed the majority of maternal mortality cases are common at Health Center IIIs, attributing it to challenges in the referral system. Speaking at a handover event where Rotarians donated a batch of fifty tricycle ambulances to different communities across the country, Hanifah Kawooya, the Minister of State for Health…
The African region is recording around 4% annual decline rate in tuberculosis (TB) cases. Although the rate is double the global pace, the region risks missing major milestones and targets to end the disease if efforts are not scaled up rapidly. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) End TB Strategy calls for countries to reduce TB…
Uganda will receive its first batch of Injection Anti-Retroviral Therapies (ARVs) used as prevention for individuals at high risk of HIV next year.This has been revealed by Dr. Lisa Nelson, the Uganda Country Director for the US Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Nelson said while the Cabotegravir Long Acting Injection commonly known as Cab-LA was…
Global HIV body, the International AIDS Society (IAS) has condemned the newly approved Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, saying it’s an extreme violation of human rights and threatens to reverse the country’s progress in the HIV response. The legislation passed on Tuesday and awaits accent by President Yoweri Museveni, makes it a crime to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health has confirmed eight more cases of Marburg, bringing the number of confirmed cases to nine since the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever was declared on 13 February. The new cases were confirmed following laboratory analysis of additional samples. So far, there are 20 probable cases and 20 deaths. The…
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee-Central Government has noted a possibility of the tax payer losing 1.59 billion Shillings in unutilized COVID-19 equipment purchased by the disbanded Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The equipment identified as the Dr Oligo DNA Synthesizer Machine was procured for a scientist from M/S Micro Haem Scientific and Medical Supplies Limited,…
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – Central Government has handed two Arua Regional Referral Hospital officials to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to help in the recovery of different COVID-19 expenditure documents from hotels and the health facility. The documents relate to the hospital expenditure of 771.85 million Shillings on the management of COVID-19 patients and…