The ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise has been slowed by the distances that residents have to travel to the gazetted vaccination centres in Lira City. The city with a population of over 10,000 people, has only six vaccination points; Ayago Primary School and PAG General Hospital located in City East Division and Lira University Teaching Hospital,…
Esther Makula writes for Chimp Reports and in this interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about lack of oxygen in hospitals during the pandemic and how this led to deaths. Esther Makula’s interview was done under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat…
Joseph Kato, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network, URN, talks about one of the stories he covered under the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on human rights, in particular women’s and…
On a hot afternoon, 12-year-old Esther Adongor , is playing with peers under tree shades at Kalas Girls Primary School in Amudat town council. She is dressed in a grey skirt and a red T-shirt with readings in the back ‘education first.’ Adongor tells Uganda Radio Network –URN that she ran away from her parents’…
Purity clinic, one of the private health facilities in Pandwong Division in Kitgum Municipality has been temporarily closed after a patient it briefly admitted succumbed to coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The patient was reportedly admitted to the facility early this week and spent three days as a regular patient before being transferred to Gulu Regional…
A new drug, Ganaplacide can clear malaria infection including strains that are resistant to the currently commonly used Artemisinin- based Therapies -ACTs, a new study done in seven malaria endemic countries including Uganda has shown. According to a statement by Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures the widely used antimalarial drug Coartem, the new…
Members of Parliament want a public holiday declared so as to scale up vaccination of learners in order to achieve the vaccination target required to reopen schools. The MPs on the Parliamentary forum on children noted that the prolonged lockdown on schools has exacerbated cases of defilement, teenage pregnancy and acute malnutrition. The forum together with the…
Uganda has received an additional 335,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The doses were donated by Ireland and received by government officials at the ministry of health and National Medical Stores-NMS. Nicole McHugh, the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Ireland handed over the vaccine doses to the government through Margaret Muhanga,…
Green cottage clinic in Mukono municipality is under the spotlight for issuing fake COVID-19 test certificates especially to people travelling abroad. Much as the clinic isn’t among those accredited to conduct COVID-19 tests, it issues PCR test results. Trouble for Green cottage clinic started when they issued a COVID-19 negative certificate to Esther Nambowa, 28,…
Kwania district has reported a high incidence of teenage pregnancy in a period of about one and half-year, hence threatening to cut short the pursuit for education amongst girls of school going age. The information was contained in data presented by the district Probation Officer, Moses Opio, during a district steering committee quartly meeting held on Tuesday…
