The Ministry of Health has urged private health facilities to consider wellness facilities for the non-medical needs of mothers and babies that can improve maternal health outcomes. Dr Richard Mugahi, the Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Reproductive and Child Health says that because they are overwhelmed by numbers in free government facilities, they have had…
Mbale Hospital administrators are requesting for a separate ward for fistula patients arguing that mixing fistula patients in the general wards has negatively affected them physiologically. The Fistula Focal Person in the Hospital, Jane Frances Acam said in an interview with Uganda Radio Network – URN that the space for the fistula cases in…
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,…
The Ministry of Health is planning to reduce the age at which girls get the Human Papilloma Vaccines which protects against cervical cancer. At the moment, the vaccine is given to females aged nine years of age. However, the health ministry wants to start giving the vaccine to five-year-olds. This is part of a new…
At least more than 4000 schoolgirls and women in Kyotera district are set to benefit from a reusable menstrual pads project. The project spearheaded by district authorities and other stakeholders is meant to address the scarcity of sanitary pads and keep girls in school during the menstrual cycle. This comes amidst the staling of the government’s…
The police in Lyantonde are investigating an incident in, which unidentified thugs gang rapped a woman and strangled her to the death. The body of 52-year-old Beatrice Kemirimo, a resident of Kabale village, Lyantonde rural sub-county was found on Friday afternoon lying in her house. She was alone at home when she was…