Ugandan students in Wuhan China have revealed that there is general lack of necessities including protective masks/gear, putting them at risk of catching the deadly diseases. The students’ concerns are contained in a statement tabled before Parliament by Latif Ssebagala (Kawempe North), who said that he had been bombarded by
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The Institut Pasteur de Dakar, in Senegal, is one of the laboratories that has the reagents needed to test samples Africa is one of only two continents with no confirmed cases of coronavirus however experts have warned that it may not be long before the first case is confirmed, given
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The National Drug Authority (NDA) has arrested four people in Mbale for running an unscrupulous pharmaceutical store. The arrests were made on Thursday according to reports. Drugs worthy 500 million shillings were discovered in a Lock Up 147, at the Mbale taxi park. The operators of the Lock-Up shop disguised
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The Pharmaceutical sector has called for inclusion of their services in the National Insurance Scheme Bill, 2019. Dr. John Kilimi (pictured in blue jacket), a representative from the Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda argued that inclusion of pharmaceutical services in the Bill will safeguard against drug shortages, drug expiries, drug wastage,
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Li Wenliang, a Wuhan doctor and hospital worker who reportedly tried to warn the Chinese public about the emerging coronavirus, died of the disease Thursday according to the Washington Post, as the death toll reached over 560 and over 28,000 people have become infected. According to CNN, after seeing patients
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Uganda’s Ministry of Health has developed a preparedness plan worth Shs25bn for handling the threat of the China Coronavirus epidemic, Jane Ruth Aceng (pictured), the Minister of Health has said. The Minister made the remarks Wednesday afternoon while addressing the press on Uganda’s preparedness situation following the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
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Hemafuse, a surgical autotransfusion device, will revolutionize blood access across Africa. Hemafuse is designed to salvage and recycle whole blood from cases of internal bleeding. The device can be used in both emergencies and scheduled procedures to recover blood from where it pools inside of a patient, into a blood
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Kenya plans to repatriate its 85 students who are stranded in China's Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, and quarantine them on their return home. The country's health administrative secretary told parliament's health committee that the evacuations will be done once China lifts the lockdown in the city.
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Hopes have been dashed an experimental vaccine could protect people against HIV, the virus that causes Aids. The National Institutes of Health has stopped its HVTN 702 trial, of more than 5,000 people in South Africa, as it found the jab did not prevent HIV. Experts expressed "deep disappointment" but
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The Health Ministry's Permanent Secretary, Dr Diana Atwine and Dr Charles Olaro, the Ag Director General Health Services, have appealed to the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry to share health tips that can avoid the coronavirus hitting Uganda. The doctors' tips are contained in an advisory shared with the Foreign Affairs
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