The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah had spent three days without eating when he was evacuated from his home in Muyenga to Mulago National Referral Hospital and eventually out of the country. The alert about ill health of Oulanyah started his failure to return phone calls for three days. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among and…
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda want the Government to grant them unrestricted and timely access to torture victims in detention facilities to save their lives. The Association officials were responding to recent incidents of torture involving physical bodily harm…
New survey findings are showing a shift in the HIV burden in Uganda from the young people to middle and older age individuals. The Ministry of Health has released preliminary findings of the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (UPHIA) survey showing a decline in the prevalence of HIV in all age groups, except among older…
The Ministry of Health says 90% of Health Center IVs in Uganda can not offer blood transfusion services. A health centre IV is a mini hospital with wards for men, women, and children and should be able to admit patients and conduct surgeries such as the caesarian section births in addition to treating conditions such as…
Nutritionists at the Department of Public Health at Lira University are developing recipes to improve the nutrition of children suffering from nodding syndrome in Acholi and Lango sub-regions. The recipes will be from locally available foods that are cheap and accessible to the communities which will contain nutrients that the children lack. It will be…
David Ssenfuka, the herbalist who claims to have a cure for non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes has announced today that he will not treat patients anymore. He has cited frustration and sabotage from the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI). Ssenfuka’s announcement follows calls by the government to standardise herbal medicines in the country by taking…
More than 1.2 million people – and potentially millions more – died in 2019 as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according to the most comprehensive estimate to date of the global impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The analysis of 204 countries and territories, published in The Lancet, reveals that AMR is now a…
Uganda will need to train more field epidemiologists in order to make major strides in disease surveillance and handling outbreaks before spiralling out of control. This was revealed by Dr Alex Riolexus Ario, the Director of the Uganda National Institute of Public Health as a batch of 13 specialists were graduating as field epidemiologists…
The Health Ministry has delayed to upload the data of the more than 6.5 million Ugandans’ COVID-19 jabs on its portal due to technical challenges. Dr. Daniel Kyabayinze, the COVID-19 Incident Commander, says they got overwhelmed by the high turn up of vaccinated people in a short period of time. Between November and December, the…
The Ministry of Health has launched an integrated computer system to curb drug shortage and wastage in health facilities countrywide. The system includes the provision of computers and trained staff to monitor the availability and usage of drugs in health facilities. While many health facilities in the country order medicines through the National Medic Stores…