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…
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,…
Private laboratories that had set up COVID-19 testing centres at Entebbe International Airport are seeking a refund for all the funds paid as rent and security deposits to Peniel Beach Hotel. The labs that include City Medicals, Case Medical Centre, and Medipal Hospital are each demanding a refund of USD 18,000 (65 million Shillings), from…
Kitgum District has run out of COVID-19 vaccines. The district received 1,571 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac early this month. This was in addition to 1,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that had been supplied by the Ministry of Health in August. The acting Kitgum District Health Officer, Dr. Henry Okello Otto told…
Churches reopened on Sunday after almost four months of closure, with a call to Christians to embrace the vaccination. On Wednesday, President Museveni reopened places of worship with only 200 congregants observing all the Standard Operating Procedures- SOPs. The places of worship were closed in June following a surge in the number of covid-19 cases.…
Uganda has received an additional 655,053 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. 501,153 doses were donated by the French government while the 153,900 doses were from Belgium. Rudi Veestraeten, the Ambassador of Belgium to Uganda, says that this is part of the 350,000 doses the country has donated to Uganda, with the remaining half…
Teachers in Kitgum opposed to the vaccination against covid-19 are buying vaccination cards without receiving the jab. The Kitgum Resident District Commissioner William Komakech and COVID 19 Taskforce chairperson says that they have received information about teachers dodging vaccines and opting for fake documents. Recently the government issued mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for all teachers…
The Ministry of Health says the 1 ,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine it has received from the US government will be administered only within Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono. Dr. Alfred Driwale, the Program Manager of Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization says the Pfizer vaccine doses will be limited to the vaccination centres…