Health Authorities in Karamoja have asked for more Johnson & Johnson vaccines to help them vaccinate pastoralists because they are nomadic and unpredictable. During the dry spell, pastoralists from Karamoja who are nomadic in nature move in search of water and pastures making it hard for health workers to access them. Currently, health workers conduct…
In June this year, 52-year-old, Dr Emmanuel Mukunya was employed at Nakaseke Regional Hospital as a general physician. He died of COVID-19 on July 19th, 2021. Another doctor Charles Kiggundu, an Obstetrician and gynaecologist who advocated for reproductive health and rights and talked to us as journalists consistently under the HEJNU umbrella also died. Dr. Kiggundu was born…
Researchers studying Uganda’s homemade COVID-19 vaccines reveal encountering huge challenges accessing mice to be able to test their candidate drugs. This comes after Science and Innovations Minister Dr. Monica Musenero was recently bashed over revelations of acquiring each mouse at 8 Million Shillings. She said Uganda wanted to procure 200 lab rats but had due…
Health Rights activists have blasted Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC for downplaying the right of Ugandans to reject vaccination. It comes a day after the Commission Chairperson, Mariam Wangadya, said that Ugandans have no right to reject the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise during a press conference ahead of the International Human Rights Day held annually on December…
C. A Care Medical Center in Kitagwenda town council in Kitagwenda district is under the spotlight following the death of a patient under unclear circumstances. Residents want the authorities to close the clinic, which belongs to Julius Katungyisa, whom they accuse to be a quark medic. Trouble for Katungyisa started on November 21st, 2021…
Nine cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant have been detected in the country. This is according to results released by the Uganda Virus Research Institute. The results were of samples of travelers that were tested at Entebbe International Airport. Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, the Executive Director of UVRI says the cases were detected among travelers from…
At least 5,000 teenage girls have been conceived in the Katakwi district since October 2020. A new report released by the Senior District Probation Officer in Katakwi, Betty Angiro indicates that more than 7,000 teenage pregnancies have been recorded in Katakwi between January 2020 and September 2021. The report shows that there is an increase…
The Ministry of Health will now distribute Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to hard to reach areas, according to Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng. She says that the single-shot jab will be preserved for residents of Karamoja, as well as the islands of Kalangala and Buvuma, among other hard to reach areas. Uganda has…
The prolonged closure of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has irked residents. The hospital closed the outpatient, dental, optical, maternal and child care departments in March last year to focus on the management of COVID-19 patients. Before its closure, the hospital served more than a million people from within Entebbe municipality, Katabi Town council, Buvuma and…
Disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, according to the annual World Malaria Report released this evening by the World Health Organization (WHO). Using a new methodology that analyses the causes of death for children under the age of five across all diseases*,…