Health

Maama kits are free for women who deliver in Government hospitals Daisy Nagawa, a 34-year-old mother of 2, in Amuru district, says she has delivered all her children with a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) in her neighborhood. This is because the nearest health facility is 16 kms away from her

President Yoweri Museveni has opened up Mubende and Kassanda districts which have been under lockdown following a surge in cases of Ebola Viral Disease (EVD). In a message read by Vice President Jessica Alupo (pictured) on Saturday, there are no more admissions in the two districts which recorded the majority of 142

Akena, the suspect in the drug theft in Kitgum/ Internet photo   Robert Akena, who is accused of stealing medical supplies worth 1.5 Billion Shillings from Kitgum General Hospital has surrendered to the police.   Jimmy Segawa Ebil, the Resident District Commissioner Kitgum said that Akena, a pharmacist handed himself to

NMS is using technology to deliver drugs Ten years ago, in-charges of health facilities would make paper-based orders to National Medical Stores (NMS) for medicine deliveries. Quite often, mistakes would happen in making orders and sometimes, these papers would get lost. Moreso, paper-based work was so time-consuming and laborious. In

Helen Mukakarisa Kataratambi, the Uganda Nurses and Midwives’ Examinations Board (UNMEB) Executive Secretary The Ministry of Education and Sports is set to review the health training curricula and lower admission requirements for critical health programs in a move to attract more students. Helen Mukakarisa Kataratambi, the Executive Secretary of Uganda Nurses and

Margaret Muhanga, State Minister for Primary Health Care A strange disease has broken out in Pader district in Acholi sub-region. The disease mainly attacks children and has already claimed lives, making over over 200,000 people in the district live in fear. This was revealed by Paska Aciro, the Pader district Woman MP,

Florence Tumuheirwe, the Executive Director of Kigezi Women in Development By Farah Nyembo HIV/AIDS activists in the Kigezi sub-region are questioning why the government has failed to expedite the implementation of the AIDS Trust Fund. Parliament enacted the HIV Prevention and Control Act in 2014. The law was operationalized in

TASO has rolled out a school-based HIV counseling program  By Farah Nyembo The Aids Support Organization (TASO) center in Masaka has rolled out a school-based HIV counseling program to create a safe environment for adolescents and protection of HIV-positive children. Fiona Nakimera, a counselor at TASO Masaka center says the concern of

 Dr. Diana Atwine (2nd Left), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health is joined by officials from UBL and Stanbic Bank to donate a universal anesthesia machine to Mayuge Health Centre IV Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) Spirited Women employee group has donated a universal anesthesia machine to Mayuge Health Centre IV. This donation is part of the corporate society of safe

Dr. Charles Ayume, Chairperson Parliament’s Health Committee A new report on the magnitude of road traffic injuries reporting to public hospitals in Uganda shows government is spending billions annually on treating road crash victims.   Presented before Parliament by Dr. Charles Ayume, Chairperson Parliament’s Health Committee, during the plenary sitting,