High Number of Cancer Patients Concealing use of Herbal Medicine Worries Experts

Doctors treating cancer patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) have expressed concern over the high number of patients using herbal medicine concurrently with their prescribed conventional medicine or chemotherapy.             The doctors who were sharing experiences in how to efficiently handle the different kinds of patients noted that many…

Acholi Cultural Leader Fault Parents For Negelience Of Teenagers.

Parents and guardians in Acholi region are responsible for the high number of teenage pregnancies, according to a section of cultural leaders in the region. They particularly accuse parents and guardians of failure to monitor their children’s lifestyles. Cases of teenage pregnancies have skyrocketed in the region ever since the government closed educational institutions as…

Mulago Specialized Women And Neonatal Hospital Still Operates Without Key Specialists

Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal hospital is still operating without key specialists three years after it was glamorously launched as a facility that epitomizes everything modern in a 21st-century health service.   Dr Evelyn Nabunya, the Executive Director of the Hospital told their first board of 12 members that was inaugurated on Thursday that the…

Gov’t Of Uganda Postpones Mandatory Testing For Incoming Passengers

The government has postponed mandatory testing for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Last month, the Ministry of Health directed that effective September 3, all incoming passengers regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated against covid-19 will undertake mandatory testing at Entebbe Airport.  Ministry of health officials led by Minister Dr Ruth Aceng…