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…
Only 620 health workers have received COVID_19 Jab in both Lira District and Lira City. The two administrative units have approximately 1000 health workers scattered in different health facilities. The current data for vaccination then means only 620 have been vaccinated. In March this year, the Ministry of Health launched the mass vaccination of people…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has opened four additional vaccination centres in the Kampala Metropolitan area as the government bids to reach more people. The four vaccines sites include City Square, Old Taxi Park, Namboole Stadium and Mayor’s Garden in Entebbe. Dr Immaculate Ampaire, the Assistant Manager of the Uganda National Expanded Program on…
Health authorities in Soroti have taken the Coronavirus vaccination campaign to socialization areas to help reach out to several people in the villages. The development follows the low uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in the region amidst the surging number of infections. Statistics from Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, which hosts the COVID-19 treatment center in the…
A total of 229 teachers in Bududa district have shunned vaccination, seven months since vaccination of teachers was rolled out in Bududa district. So far, 1,371 teachers and non-teaching staff in Bududa district have been vaccinated against Covid-19. The district received 9,313 doses of AstraZeneca and Sinovac and targeted 1,600 teachers, a number that has…
Uganda has received 196,800 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine which were bought by the government. This is the first batch of the nine million doses of the single-shot vaccines. The vaccines were delivered aboard Brussels Airlines, which torched down at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday night. The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary,…