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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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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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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A woman identified as Doreen Akoth is suing International Hospital Kampala-IHK for negligence during a surgical procedure that has had lasting effects on her body and lifestyle. Akoth visited International Hospital Kampala for delivery on October 28, 2017, after antenatal visits to Bethesda Hospital in Soroti and St. Anthony Hospital
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dfcu Bank has officially launched an internal fundraising drive to complement Menstrual Hygiene Management initiatives spearheaded by Uganda Red Cross Society and the Ministry of Education and Sports. In March dfcu, at a corporate level, joined URCS & Ministry of Education to launch a nationwide campaign whose overall objective is
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Pregnant women in northwest Tanzania who do not give birth in health facilities are being fined between $9 (UShs33, 843) and $22 (UShs82,730), privately-owned newspaper The Citizen reports. The paper says the women are forced to pay the fine when they visit medical centres for other services like vaccination for
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Government has revealed that recent joint operations carried out by Ministry of Health, National Drug Authority, Uganda Police and Health Monitoring Unit have resulted into the impounding of 981 boxes of assorted medical items valued at Shs490.5m of which 165 boxes had medicines intended for public health facilities. The revelation
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A study carried out by experts on sexual and reproductive health from Guttmacher Institute and partners have revealed that in Uganda, sexual and reproductive health services and information fall short for adolescents, noting that a comprehensive approach is essential to improve the well-being of young women. The authors recommend taking
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A study that examined older Americans' well-being before and after medical marijuana laws were passed in their state found reductions in reported pain and increased hours worked. The study, co-written by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Temple University, suggests medical marijuana laws could be improving
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