The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the first-ever vaccine to prevent malaria, as it moves to save the lives of tens of thousands of children in Africa, where the disease remains endemic. Malaria, one of the oldest known and deadliest infectious diseases kills about half a million people each year, nearly all of them…
Kibaale district has run out of COVID-19 Vaccines amidst an increasing number of people turning up at health facilities for vaccination. The district received 4,776 doses of Astra-Zeneca and 1,455 doses of Sinovac from the Health Ministry recently. Godfrey Timbihurira, the Kibaale District Health Officer-DHO told Uganda Radio Network on Tuesday that they ran out…
The Joint Medical Store (JMS), a joint venture of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) and the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB) is setting up a medical oxygen plant with a capacity to manufacture up to 150 cylinders per hour. Dr Bildard Baguma, the Executive Director JMS said that they are investing one million US Dollars…
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…