The Executive Director of the Uganda Heart Institute, Dr John Omangino has defended a UGX 264 billion Shillings loan request for establishing a Centre of Cardiac Excellence. Dr. Omagino on Wednesday appeared before Parliament’s Health Committee which is considering the loan request for the infrastructure development project. The Heart Institute was allocated 10 acres of…
Amidst food insecurity and hunger, the Italian Ambassador to Uganda, Massimiliano Mazzanti says Ugandans should maintain their taste buds to eating locally grown food. This will in effect grow the economy. Mazzanti says Ugandans, especially the younger population are increasingly going for exotic consumer products, yet similar ones are made in the country. This is…
Activists opposed to the Reproductive Health Bill that among other things legalises abortion want it withdrawn from regional East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). The bill that was tabled before EALA has clauses that legalise abortion, tackle Gender-Based Violence, agree to commercialise surrogacy, and for students to have comprehensive Sexuality Education. An online petition against the bill circulating…
Women in the health and care sector face a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, earning on average of 24 percent less than peers who are men, according to a new joint report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, the world’s most comprehensive analysis…
Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of…
Monkeypox samples from 24 suspected cases have been deemed negative, according to the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). The samples were taken to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in South Africa to South Africa following an outbreak of the disease in more than 80 countries in the world. Uganda does not have reagents that…
Twenty- four orthopedic patients are benefiting from free surgeries at a week-long surgical camp at Mulago Specialized National Referral hospital. Orthopedic surgeons are carrying out joint and knee replacements and other musculoskeletal repairs using the minimally invasive technique also known as laparoscopy. 10 of the patients are undergoing ligament repair whereas fourteen others are getting artificial…
The government has proposed life imprisonment for any person who sells or gets involved in any form of compensation for human organs, tissues, or cells. This is part of the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2021 the Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng tabled before Parliament. The proposed new law prohibits the…
In just one month, about sixty people have reportedly died of hunger in Kotido district. A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification(IPC) indicates that about 518,000 people approximately 40 percent of the population in the Karamoja sub-region, are facing high levels of food insecurity. Children are most affected with the prevalence of acute…
About 20 percent of all patients who present with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) in Uganda die. This is above the globally acceptable rate of 5% of all cases presented in any country. Annually, an estimated 1,500 cases of MDRTB are registered in the country either as first-time or progressive infections. According to records from the ministry…