Patients using insurance cards in Kenya are charged up to 50 times more than those paying in cash for the same procedure at the same hospital, reports Business Daily. The highly exaggerated cost of healthcare by health service providers when they bill patients with insurance cards is a cause for
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The MTN Foundation has today concluded the donation of hospital items in three hospitals based in Mubende, Kyenjojo, and Bundibugyo. The handover activities were concluded today at Bundibugyo Hospital in Bundibugyo where 25 beds, bed sheets, mosquito nets, and mattresses were received by the hospital administration. The other two hospitals
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called on government to lift the ban on fresh recruitment of health workers and physicians in public hospitals and health centres. She made the call while presiding over the launch of the strategic plan for Reproductive Maternal New born child and
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In the spring of 1994, Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana’s executioners arrived. It was about two weeks after the Hutu majority-controlled government stepped up its decades-long persecution of the Tutsi minority, calling on citizens to slaughter all Tutsis. Nizeyimana’s family was Tutsi, and it didn’t take long for the killers to come
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President Yoweri Museveni is known to make pledges especially during Presidential campaigns as a way of wooing voters to his side. However, new released report to Parliament by the Government Assurance Committee shows that 55 presidential pledges in the health and works sectors have not been implemented. The Committee headed
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The future of State House funded scholarship programme aimed at equipping Mulago Hospital surgeons with specialized training abroad is bleak, thanks to infighting among various government officials. Business Focus understands that President Yoweri Museveni came up with the programme in 2017 after Dr. Gideon Rukundo Rugari, a senior Surgeon at
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Trahas Bed Care (U) Ltd Friday officially opened in Uganda to offer home care treatment and bed side care services to Ugandans in a move that will revolutionize the country’s health system. Speaking to journalists at the company’s head offices in Muyenga-Kironde road, Trahas Bed Care Business Development Director, Edwin
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The U.S. Mission in Uganda has added more than $100 million in aid to the East African country with about half being injected into health, a sector analysts say is receiving little attention from the government. The United States Mission in Uganda says its assistance to the East African country
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Kenyan authorities have recalled 15 batches of six locally available heart and blood pressure drugs over fears that they may be carrying a cancer-causing impurity, Business Daily reports. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) said in a statement dated July 12 that its decision to recall all drugs containing Valsartan
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MTN Uganda Foundation yesterday donated hospital equipment to Oriajin Hospital based in Arua as part of its Access to Health Care initiative project. The donation will benefit hundreds of patients from the West Nile region and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo who frequent one of Northern Uganda’s busiest public hospitals.
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