Several teenage mothers in Luwero district are appealing for skills training to enable them to look after themselves and their children. According to Luwero District Health Report, at least 16,163 girls below the age of 19 years got pregnant in the 2020/21 financial year. Of these, 442 girls are below 15 years of age. Luwero,…
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has tasked a ten-member select committee comprising ten officials from the National Planning Authority-NPA, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA, security agencies and the ministries of health and tourism to address loopholes in the COVID-19 testing procedures at Entebbe International Airport. Nabbanja, who heads the Inter-ministerial Committee on Uganda’s COVID-19 response named the…
The Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe municipality, the first of its kind in Uganda, has started bearing fruits less than five months since it opened. The 72 bed hospital is located a few metres from the Special Forces Command-SFC Barracks in Lunyo village, Entebbe Municipality. Built at a cost of 117…
The Ministry of Health has begun carrying out surveillance around communities neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of meningitis in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 129 lives have been lost. Health Minister Dr Ruth Aceng told URN in an interview that they are moving fast to deploy adequate surveillance teams to ensure…
As leadership of Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) is finalizing with the recruitment of more 10000 Local Defense Units- LDUs, security analysts have warned Ugandans to expect worst in regard to human rights violations. Security experts such as Grace Matsiko and Fred Egesa say with how LDUs have subjected Ugandans to all sorts of…
Health facilities in Buvuma district are facing a shortage of drugs. The district has one health centre IV, three health center IIIs of Busamuzi, Bugaya and Namatale and eight health center IIs which include Lwaje, Bwema, Nkata, Lubya, Lukale, Lingira, Namiti and Buwooya. Dr Baker Kanyike, the Buvuma District Health Officer says that the…
Kyaggwe county leaders are concerned about the increasing number of pregnancies and deliveries involving school-age going children due to the prolonged school closure. At least 127 out of the 1000 girls under the Kyaggwe county (Ssaza) bursary scheme have conceived in the lockdown. Some of the children have given birth to healthy babies while others…
Amuru district is struggling to diagnose and treat patients with Tuberculosis disease (TB) due to the lack of an x-ray machine. Amuru was carved out of Gulu district in 2006 but to date, its major Health Centre IV in Attiak has been operating without an x-ray which is essential for testing TB disease. The x-ray…
At least more than 4000 schoolgirls and women in Kyotera district are set to benefit from a reusable menstrual pads project. The project spearheaded by district authorities and other stakeholders is meant to address the scarcity of sanitary pads and keep girls in school during the menstrual cycle. This comes amidst the staling of the government’s…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a meningitis outbreak in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 261 suspected cases and 129 deaths—a high case fatality ratio of 50%—have been reported. Confirmatory tests carried out by the Institute Pasteur in Paris detected Neisseria meningitidis – one of the most frequent types of bacterial meningitis with the…