The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has issued a license allowing two pairs of humanised mice needed in the making of the homegrown Uganda COVID-19 vaccine to be ferried into the country. The triple immunodeficient humanised mice model was developed by scientists to lead to a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the…
The government has allocated 3 billion UGX Shillings (USD $840,000) for studies into the efficacy of COVIDEX, a herbal solution that helps relieve symptoms associated with COVID-19. Prof. Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a clinical pharmacologist behind the herbal concoction COVIDEX revealed during an interview. He, however, says that the money wasn’t released directly to his company,…
Lalogi Health Centre IV in Omoro district is struggling to treat children with sickle cell disease and malnourishment. The facility quarterly receives over 200,000 children from Omoro, Pader, Oyam, Lira and parts of Gulu district. However, it lacks adequate space in its children’s admission ward which has a capacity of only ten beds, forcing…
A bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer, pain in the chest, coughing up blood or sputum (phlegm from deep inside the lungs) are some of the symptoms of Tuberculosis. In Napak district, Karamoja region coughing loudly and persistently without stopping resulted in a bullet shot for a TB patient and death. Now, patients suffering…
The government has signed a contract to immediately procure a Positron Emission Tomography – PET scan for the Uganda Cancer Institute. Parliament has also appropriated money for the construction of the Nuclear Medicine Unit to house a Linear Accelerator and other treatment units at the Uganda Cancer Institute to reinforce cancer care and treatment. The speaker…
A leading manufacturer of medical and life sciences equipment, Getinge, has joined IFC’s Africa Medical Equipment Facility, an initiative designed to help healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa have better access to life-saving equipment and supplies, IFC announced today. Sweden-headquartered Getinge’s participation in the IFC-led facility will expand opportunities for medical clinics and hospitals in Africa to…
Annual Reviews a leading nonprofit publisher has announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open (S2O) a business model that uses subscription payments to convert gated access journals to full open access (OA). These highly cited journals cover topics across…
The Late Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah died of cancer and multiple organ failure. This is according to a postmortem report presented before Parliament by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng. Dr Aceng was one of the four people who recently flew to Seattle, Washington, USA where Oulanyah was being treated before breathing his last on…
Harriet Kizza, 56 has been working with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA since 2011, desilting drainage channels in different parts of the City. She wakes up as early as 5am to prepare for work and by the latest 6am, she’s at her station of work to begin the day. Her supervisors draft a plan for desilting…
An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, medical scientists have warned. Fossil fuels are responsible for most of the harmful emissions that are linked to acute and chronic sickness, according to the…