At the Neurosurgery ward of Mulago National Referral Hospital on Saturday lay about ten patients with their heads sealed in bandages, some struggling to seat or sustain a conversation. They are among the eighty who benefitted from a 14 day surgical camp that had specialists save patients with brain tumors and those with deformities of…
he government of Uganda is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of South Sudan to extend its support in the Ebola response by sending health workers. Dr. Charles Ayume, the State for Health in charge of Primary Health Care, said the move is aimed at helping South Sudan respond to Ebola…
Corporate football teams from across Uganda are set to converge in Mbale City this month for a tournament aimed at raising funds to equip the physiotherapy department at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. The Ugandan National Corporate Tournament Eastern Edition 2026, hosted by Mbale Corporate Club, will be held on August 22 and 23 at Mbale…
A new study has found that stillbirth, preterm birth and neonatal mortality remain high among women delivering at Kawempe National Referral Hospital, with rates exceeding Uganda’s national estimates. The study, published in the Medical Journal Vaccine, found a stillbirth incidence of 26.3 per 1,000 total births, compared with the national estimate of 17 per 1,000…
The government has suspended a controversial provision that sought to introduce different facilitation arrangements for privately sponsored and government-sponsored medical interns, Health Minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi has told Parliament. The decision follows weeks of parliamentary pressure and protests by medical interns over the government’s earlier position on their allowances, with some interns arrested, charged and…
The Ministry’s review also identifies a number of factors that place some newborns at greater risk. Kampala has the country’s highest preterm birth rate, at 59.5 per 1,000 live births, compared with a national rate of 26.6. Lango and Acholi also have relatively high preterm birth rates, at 41.4 and 45.2 per 1,000 live births,…
Lango has the highest rate of male partner involvement in Uganda’s services aimed at preventing HIV transmission from mothers to their babies, with men reached at a rate more than eight times higher than in Busoga, according to the Ministry of Health’s latest performance review. The Lango region reached 40% of male partners through elimination…
Critical medicines used to care for sick newborns are currently out of stock at Uganda’s National Medical Stores, according to the Ministry of Health’s Aug. 14, 2026, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health commodity report. The report lists caffeine citrate, surfactant and cefotaxime injection among newborn commodities with no stock or critically low availability…
Uganda has substantial stocks of some contraceptives in its central warehouses, yet women seeking family planning services are still encountering empty shelves at health facilities, according to a Ministry of Health report. The disparity is particularly clear for injectable contraception. While supplies of DMPA, including Sayana Press, are described as fairly stocked at the national…
Kampala has Uganda’s highest institutional maternal mortality ratio, with adolescent mothers facing a risk more than seven times higher than the national average for their age group, according to a Ministry of Health performance review. The review for the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year puts Kampala’s institutional maternal mortality ratio at 157.8 deaths…