Scientists have questioned the approach used by the government to control disease outbreaks and pandemics using coerce law enforcement. Speaking at the launch of a report, “Finding Humanity in uncertainty: Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Uganda released by the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) on Tuesday, David Serwadda a Professor of Public Health at…
The Third Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Isanga Nakadama has directed all Residents District Commissioners and Resident City Commissioners to take tough action against the rampant cases of drug theft and medical supplies in government hospitals. Nakadama who is also the Minister Without Portfolio noted that the country is registering numerous cases of drug thefts and…
President Yoweri Museveni has opened up Mubende and Kassanda districts which have been under lockdown following a surge in cases of Ebola Viral Disease (EVD). In a message read by Vice President Jessica Alupo on Saturday, there are no more admissions in the two districts which recorded the majority of 142 cases. Both districts have…
Members of the Uganda Medical Association -UMA have voted to suspend their president Dr Samuel Oledo for four years and have voted to replace him with Dr Edith Nakku-Joloba. Oledo was on the spot for leading a group of intern doctors to publicly endorse President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power for nearly 37 years…
BY SAM WAKHAKHA On December 6, 2022, the presidential press secretary, Farouk Kirunda issued an order barring journalists without COVID-19 vaccination certificates from covering State House functions. In a notice sent to news editors and managers on December 2, Kirunda, said journalists who do not have COVID-19 vaccination certificates would not be allowed to cover…
Leaders in Pader district have asked the government for consistent food supplies for families with children suffering from nodding syndrome. Rtd Col. Fearless Obwoya, the Pader District LC V chairperson, says that families with children suffering from the nodding syndrome have no time to engage in productive business or agriculture because they are preoccupied with…
By Shiprah Kwagaka Health facilities in Iganga District are challenged with a low uptake of Covid-19 booster doses by locals. Through interviews, health workers intimated that there are information gaps to be addressed for the locals to embrace booster doses uptake. Many are unaware that they are necessary even if the President made an appeal to the…
Uganda has been listed among countries that didn’t fully utilize one of the malaria prevention strategies of bed net distribution in 2021. According to new data released by the World Health Organization-WHO on Thursday, the country distributed less than 60 percent of the nets that they were supposed to distribute. Uganda is categorized together with…
Nearly 2,000 baby deliveries by teenagers were registered at the various health facilities at the Bidi Bidi Refugee settlement at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. Records at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) indicate that over 4,000 girls under 18 years reported their first Antenatal Care (ANC) visit at various health facilities in Bidibidi…
On 4th December, all the 42 people who had been identified as contacts to the first confirmed Ebola case from Masaka district were discharged from institutional quarantine after showing no symptoms of the deadly virus. These had been identified as Ebola suspects during the contact tracing process by the joint Ebola Taskforce as part of…