Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called for increased training programmes in pharmacy aimed at developing a good reputation for the profession. With the increase of pharmacists and the rise of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Kadaga said that it is important to ensure safety of drugs and value for human
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Uganda’s health sector is facing many challenges including inadequate patients’ care leading to slow recovery, rapid disease spread and stress among families among other consequences. To help solve the above challenge, Asphire Life International, a healthcare firm has introduced bedside nursing care services aimed at reaching out to over 5,000
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The United Nations says the number of people going hungry has increased for the third year running. A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the UN Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization, said reaching the target of
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A new dawn for patients and health facilities struggling to find medicine has come. Julius Sseninde, 22, who is set to graduate with a Diploma in Pharmacy from Uganda Institute of Allied Health & Management Sciences -Mulago next year, has developed an app called E Pine Pharmacy, a new pharmaceutical
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Seventy percent of the food sold on Ugandan streets is contaminated, according to Dr. Benon Kwesiga, an epidemiologist with the Health Ministry, URN reports. In his study published in the International Journal of Food Contamination in June, Dr. Kwesiga, says a large sample of food consumed from the street contains
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Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Burkina Faso as part of an anti-malaria campaign. While some critics have raised concerns, the scientists involved said the release, which was the first of its kind in Africa, represented a very important milestone. Burkina Faso's Research Institute of Health Sciences, a government
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A top health official has warned that although Ebola outbreaks can be controlled, the disease will keep returning until political stability is achieved in the region. The outbreak can be stopped this time but "it may come back, because the system is weak," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebryesus, chief executive of
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda (PSU), a professional body for pharmacists in Uganda has demanded that the British Broadcasting Services (BBC) withdraws the documentary dubbed ‘Stealing from the Sick’ that implicated a number of medical officers including pharmacists stealing drugs from public health facilities. In a statement authored and signed
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The Uganda Atomic Energy Council-AEC-Uganda has closed the x-ray section at Masaka Regional Referral hospital citing radiation leakage. AEC-Uganda is mandated to regulate the peaceful application of ionizing radiation, protection and safety of radioactive sources. A source told local news agency, URN that the xray was closed because of
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Last week, the Ebola virus crossed from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda. Since then, the virus has not only claimed two lives, but also brought trade along the border region to a virtual halt. Businessman Penge Kiss has been importing fish for the last 15 years from Uganda
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