Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have expressed concerns about the fraud in the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), describing the practice as another form of cancer eating up patients visiting the facility. The MPs raised the concerns today while meeting officials from UCI that had been summoned
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The world could be free of malaria - one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity - within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are still more than 200 million cases of the disease, which mostly kills young children. The report says eradicating malaria is
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A strange disease has attacked Mityana South County in Mityana district, with a number of children reported to have lost their lives. According to Mityana South MP, Henry Makumbi Kamya, residents in his county are living in untold fear over the disease. He raised the matter during today's plenary sitting
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A nine-year-old Congolese girl diagnosed with Ebola in Uganda has died, health officials say. She had been screened for Ebola at the Mpondwe border crossing when coming into the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo with her mother. She was found to have had a fever, immediately put into
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A report on Kawempe Women Specialised Hospital has showed that 86 mothers and 2225 babies died in a single year at the multi-billion facility. The astonishing figures were revealed by Dr. Joyce Moriku, Minister of State for Primary Health Care, at the Ministry of Health while meeting with the MPs
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TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) has asked Kenyans and East Africans to be vigilant against a fake antibiotic in circulation in the market. The WHO said that fake versions of Augmentin are in circulation in some pharmacies in Kenya. It also said they could be found in Uganda. Augmentin is a
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There is urgent need to improve remuneration of health specialists to attract them to return and work in government medical facilities in the country. The Minister for Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng (in featured photo), has told MPs on the Committee of National Economy that there are many health workers
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The mushrooming energy drinks on market might affect the health of Ugandans if they are not controlled, MPs have observed. Kasambya County MP, Gaffa Mbwatekamwa raised the complaint during yesterday’s plenary sitting, noting that no one knows the contentin the energy drinks and thus you cannot know whether they are
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More than one million people have been infected with malaria in Uganda in the last two months, officials have said. The health ministry has attributed the rapid rise partly to climate change, with the disease now appearing in regions that were previously malaria-free thanks to a mild climate. This time
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Drug resistance to the first line HIV treatment is on the rise in Uganda, according to a report published by the World Health Organization-WHO. Findings from a survey carried out between 2014-2018 show increasing resistance to Efavirenz and Nevirapine, the fine line HIV treatment. The survey shows that in the
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