On June 5th 2019, Nakasero Hospital celebrated its 10th Year Anniversary at the Serena Hotel in Kampala. The colorful event attracted the health industry’s key players including Ruhakana Rugunda, the Prime Minister and Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health. Nakasero Hospital organized this celebration to give back and show
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The World Health Organization and Uganda’s Ministry of Health have confirmed two more cases of Ebola in Uganda after the virus claimed the life of a five-year-old boy. The two patients whose blood samples tested positive for Ebola are relatives of the boy. The confirmation now brings the number of
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Orient Bank has partnered with Makerere University Business School (MUBS) to train over 30 proprietors of Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) in a move aimed at growing these businesses into large enterprises. This is the 3rd edition of the Orient Bank Business Academy. Speaking at the launch of this edition
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The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija will tomorrow read the 2019/20 National Budget to Ugandans. The Shs40.48 trillion budget has a 20% increment compared to last year’s Shs32 trillion. The budget is huge compared to recent years. In 2017/18, the budget stood at Shs22 trillion, up
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The Civil Division of High Court is stuck with an application filed by a Ugandan national Musoke Moses Kinene Ziringwira against US president, Donald Trump and his predecessor, Barack Hussein Obama. They are jointly sued with Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni and Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi of Buganda Kingdom. Division of
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Uganda’s total labour force increased from 8.8 million people in 2012/13 to 10 million people in 2016/17, government has revealed. According to the Background to the Budget for Fiscal Year 2019/20 released by Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, unemployment declined from 12 to 9 percent over the same
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President Yoweri Museveni has appointed the country's Airforce chief of staff as the new Special Forces Command (SFC) head. The change was announced on Tuesday evening according to reports indicating that Major General James Birungi has replaced Major General Don Nabaasa. The reports add that Nabaasa has been sent to
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Uganda has confirmed the presence of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Kasese district, western Uganda. The confirmed case is a 5 year old Congolese child who traveled from the DRC with his family on 9th June 2019. The child and his family entered the country through Bwera Border post and
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Cabinet recently approved the board of directors for Uganda National Airlines Company Limited. The board of seven directors will be chaired by Ahabwe Godfrey Pereza, a former MP for Rubanda East Constituency and Minister of State for Local Government. Director of Transport at Ministry of Works and Transport, Benon Kajuna
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MPs on Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Tuesday quizzed officials from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital over failure to safely dispose of expired drugs, a thing Auditors say puts health of patients at risk. The Mbarara Hospital team led by the Director Celestine Barigye, had been summoned to respond to queries raised
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