Uganda private healthcare providers want a mindset shift perception about them from a profit centre to a partner in providing health care. Speaking to Health Journalists Network members during a boot camp held in Kampala, Grace Kiwanuka Ssali, the Executive Director of Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) an umbrella body for private health providers said the private…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has issued a license allowing two pairs of humanised mice needed in the making of the homegrown Uganda COVID-19 vaccine to be ferried into the country. The triple immunodeficient humanised mice model was developed by scientists to lead to a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the…
The government has allocated 3 billion UGX Shillings (USD $840,000) for studies into the efficacy of COVIDEX, a herbal solution that helps relieve symptoms associated with COVID-19. Prof. Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a clinical pharmacologist behind the herbal concoction COVIDEX revealed during an interview. He, however, says that the money wasn’t released directly to his company,…
Lalogi Health Centre IV in Omoro district is struggling to treat children with sickle cell disease and malnourishment. The facility quarterly receives over 200,000 children from Omoro, Pader, Oyam, Lira and parts of Gulu district. However, it lacks adequate space in its children’s admission ward which has a capacity of only ten beds, forcing…
The government has signed a contract to immediately procure a Positron Emission Tomography – PET scan for the Uganda Cancer Institute. Parliament has also appropriated money for the construction of the Nuclear Medicine Unit to house a Linear Accelerator and other treatment units at the Uganda Cancer Institute to reinforce cancer care and treatment. The speaker…
The Late Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah died of cancer and multiple organ failure. This is according to a postmortem report presented before Parliament by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng. Dr Aceng was one of the four people who recently flew to Seattle, Washington, USA where Oulanyah was being treated before breathing his last on…
Harriet Kizza, 56 has been working with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA since 2011, desilting drainage channels in different parts of the City. She wakes up as early as 5am to prepare for work and by the latest 6am, she’s at her station of work to begin the day. Her supervisors draft a plan for desilting…
An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, medical scientists have warned. Fossil fuels are responsible for most of the harmful emissions that are linked to acute and chronic sickness, according to the…
More than two years after the world came to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation has launched a plan that seeks to end the global emergency this year. According to the plan shared by the UN health agency, the pandemic could be history at the end of the year if…
Ten medical workers in Nama sub-county in Mukono district who were involved in the mass polio vaccination campaign in January this year are yet to receive their allowances. The Sub-county Chairperson, Johnbosco Isabirye, says that the ten health workers were denied their allowances despite conducting the exercise. He says that the medical workers brought the…