The therapeutics that have been developed by Dr Nambatya and her team Five herbal or plant-based therapeutics have been developed by the Natural Chemotherapeutic's Research Institute to assist in the treatment and management of COVID-19 in Uganda. The products include; Warbugia Ugandensis, Cypress oil, Cypress herbal tea, propolis tincture and
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Travelers run to villages ahead of inter-district transport lock on Thursday. Experts say this is likely to spread COVID-19 to other places yet the intervention was meant to interrupt transmission. Public health experts have raised concern over the new restrictions limiting inter-district travel, closing schools, weekly markets and prayer places
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Housing Finance Bank staff getting vaccinated In partnership with KCCA, Housing Finance Bank organized a two-day vaccination exercise for its employees and their families at its headquarters in Kololo and has continued to rally upcountry staff to receive vaccination at government gazetted centers. This comes at the time when the
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A study on the road safety on Uganda’s road accident shows a mismatch between the death numbers reported by the police and those compiled from an independent study by Makerere University School of Public Health and the World Health Organization.Choosing the year 2016 for their study, the researchers who used
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Mulago Hospital Building The intensive care units at Mulago National Referral Hospital and Entebbe General Hospital are full of COVID-19 patients, according to medics. This comes weeks after the country entered the second wave of COVID-19, which many scientists predicted would be worse compared to the first one characterised with
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dfcu employees being vaccinated With COVID-19 Vaccination opening up for everyone above the age 18 years, many companies are taking the initiative to vaccinate their employees and family members. In a recent drive to ensure that as many of it’s employees respond to the national call for vaccination, dfcu Bank, in
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Fruits and vegetables Ugandans are consuming fruits and vegetables heavily contaminated with pesticides, says a Senior Agriculture Officer in Charge of Food security at the agriculture ministry. Heavy pesticide use on fruits and vegetables is leaving behind heavy residues, thereby poisoning consumers slowly, warns Sunday Bob George also the organic
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dfcu and UCI Executives during the ground breaking Ceremony today dfcu Bank has extended support to the Uganda Cancer Institute with the construction of a 100-seater shelter to provide the outpatients with a secure and decent waiting area as they access health services at the Mulago institute. The shelter valued
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Seven African countries have so far detected the variant/Getty Images Kenya has confirmed 15 more cases of the Indian Covid-19 variant. Dr Rashid Aman from the health ministry says this now brings the total number of cases from this mutation to 20. "The new cases were confirmed from a genome
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Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng getting vaccinated Uganda is most likely to be fully re-opened in 2022 after at least 4.8 million people have been fully vaccinated. At the moment, the country is still under a partial lockdown with some sectors still closed.Sectors like the entertainment and performing arts are
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