Health experts are urging the government to initiate medical camps at health centers, staffed with teams of healthcare professionals, as a means of alleviating the daily pressures on healthcare services,” advised Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, the acting Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital. She made this call to action during a two-day AMDA Caravan Medical…
In early June 2021, President Yoweri Museveni banned private and public transport as part of the strict lockdown re-imposed in an effort to curtail the spread of Covid-19 variants. The newest lockdown measures for 42days prohibited transportation inside and across country districts, even in Kampala but the only exceptions to the rule were vehicles transporting…
Uganda through the National Medical Stores has this Thursday afternoon received an additional consignment of 655,053 doses of Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Of these, 501,153 doses are donations from the French government while 153,900 doses are from the Belgian government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines from the French government to Uganda after the first…
Christine Nantambi, 26, a housewife and mother of two children had spent six years in a peaceful cohabitation marriage with her fiancé Ivan Kasule, 29, a resident of Quarter Zone, Kanyanya Parish in Kawempe Division. Once the pandemic broke out last year and a lockdown was announced everything in her marriage changed for the worst. In…
As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda wanes, the Uganda Prison Services have turned the Kampala Remand facility into the High Dependency Unit (HDU) Center for inmates in preparation for the anticipated third wave of the dreaded disease in the country. Recently, Scientists in the Country warned of a third wave saying…
By Ben Musanje The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases…
The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases recorded were inflicted…