Government will set up cancer treatment centres in Arua and Mbale referral hospitals to treat different types of cancers prevalent in the country. In addition to the centres in Arua in West Nile and Mbale in eastern Uganda, there is another cancer treatment centre already operational in Mbarara Regional Referral
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Hundreds of people Thursday flocked the Kololo Independence Grounds to take advantage of free screening and treatment of different types of cancers. About 200 people have so far registered for free cancer screening at the ongoing Taxpayers’ Appreciation Week 2018. The cases being screened include cervical, breast and prostate cancers,
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The aid group Save the Children says it is concerned about two new Ebola cases recorded near the border with Uganda. It said they occurred about 200km (124 miles) from the epicentre of the new outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The organisation says it is
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As the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo reaches 100, according to the World Health Organization, the health ministry has suspended all outreach work due to insecurity in the area. This means that teams involved in contact tracing and vaccination are
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The State Minister of Health in charge General Duties, Sarah Opendi has revealed that absenteeism among medical workers in public health facilities is here to stay, a thing that will leave Ugandans who seek medical treatment from the facilities in question demoralized. The Minister made the remarks during a plenary
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The people neighbouring Kiruddu hospital Makindye will soon smile and breath well if National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) gets the or Shs4bn it is seeking to establish a sewerage system at the hospital. This is after residents repeatedly complained of the uncontrollable stench that often comes from the hospital.
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Victoria University, one of Uganda’s fastest growing universities has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Swedish top med-tech company to help in implementing and evaluating efficiency of artificial intelligence diagnostic support platform. The MoU was signed between Victoria University and One World Health and Byon8 at Victoria Tower in
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Accessible only by ferry services, Kalangala District still struggles with ensuring adequate access to healthcare. With the closest national referral hospital being in Masaka – on the mainland of Uganda -, Kalangala District Local government officials are looking to have the status of Kalangala Health Centre IV elevated to hospital
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) conducts regular market surveillance inspections to determine the level of compliance to Uganda Standards to protect consumers and the environment from dangerous substandard products. In the month July 2018, the market surveillance inspectors picked 249 samples which were submitted to UNBS laboratories for
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The new Radiotherapy Machine used by Cancer patients has broken down, the Uganda Cancer Institute has said. “The cancer institute is experiencing technical glitch,” Dr. Jackson Orem, the Executive Director at Uganda Cancer Institute said in a statement dated 30th August, 2018. He added: “The computer system that operates the
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