The Uganda Prisons Service has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across the country. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson, said only 2% of the already vaccinated prisoners have received the second dose. Baine explained that their target is to vaccinate at least 50 percent of the…
The Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali is urging all staff and operators of public transport services including those of MV Kalangala to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Njuki says service providers such as taxi drivers, conductors, boda boda motorcyclists and crews for water vessels like MV Kalangala should get vaccinated. “In future, it could…
While women are encouraged to always check their breasts to look out for any possible swelling five to ten days every after their monthly periods, experts at the Uganda Cancer Institute say men should do the same at any time during the month. Dr. Noleb Mugisha, an oncologist who heads screening services says many men…
Health workers have been asked to embrace COVID-19 vaccination to protect themselves against COVID-19 infections. The call was made by health officials during the 19th Dr. Matthew Lukwiya memorial lecture held on Thursday at the Guide University Project in Kampala. Dr Lukyiwa was the former Director of St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu. He succumbed to…
Mbale Hospital administrators are requesting for a separate ward for fistula patients arguing that mixing fistula patients in the general wards has negatively affected them physiologically. The Fistula Focal Person in the Hospital, Jane Frances Acam said in an interview with Uganda Radio Network – URN that the space for the fistula cases in…
Metrine Chemutai has endured an obstetric fistula for eight years, a situation she recalls came at the birth of her last child, after undergoing Female Genital Mutilation. Now aged 35, Chemutai who hails from Kween district in the Sebei sub-region, says she had her first child at 14. But after giving birth to four children,…
Between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, according to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. That grim estimate features in a new WHO working paper based on the 3.45 million coronavirus-related deaths reported globally to the UN…
Mandatory testing for all incoming passengers is expected to commence this weekend at Entebbe International Airport. This after the Inter-ministerial committee, chaired by the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, inspected the airport on Thursday evening to assess readiness to start the exercise. Julius Mucunguzi, the spokesperson of the Office of the Prime Minister-OPM, says the exercise will…
The National Medical Stores, with a mandate to procure and distribute essential medicines and medical supplies to all public facilities in the country, has announced that unvaccinated staff and visitors will no longer be allowed to access its offices. The directive takes immediate effect for staff, and start on October 18 for all other visitors.…
The Ministry of Health has kicked off mass administration of drugs for river blindness disease among South Sudan refugees in Northern Uganda. The exercise, the first of its kind comes nearly two years after the Health Ministry rolled out plans to conduct mass treatment of river blindness in refugee settlements to eliminate threats of river…
