Cancer Treatment centre in Gulu will be renamed after the former speaker of Parliament Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah Local government councils in Northern Uganda have resolved to rename the Northern regional Cancer Treatment centre in Gulu after the former speaker of Parliament Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah. The resolution is one
Read MoreSectors
Retail prices of fuel in Uganda continued to rise early this week, mainly attributed to the persisting high global prices of crude and cost of transportation. The two market leaders Shell and TotalEnergies quoted a litre of petrol at 5,220 shillings while diesel stands at 4,800 a litre, an
Read MoreAs Uganda grapples with high maternal and newborn mortality rates, the Kampala Slum Maternal and Newborn Health (MaNe) implementation research project, tested innovative approaches addressing the demand and supply side barriers affecting care seeking, effective referral and provision of quality care for maternal and newborn health in urban slum settings
Read MorePortrait of the former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah who succumbed to cancer at Parliament's Lobby. The government has signed a contract to procure a Positron Emission Tomography - PET scan to bolster detection and treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute. The Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng revealed this
Read MoreSADDENING: Workers Handle Human Waste With Bare Hands in KCCA’s Blocked Drainage Channels
KCCA headquarters in Kampala aka City Hall Harriet Kizza, 56 has been working with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA since 2011, desilting drainage channels in different parts of the City. She wakes up as early as 5am to prepare for work and by the latest 6am, she's at her station
Read MoreHigh Viral, Bacterial Infections: Why Clinicians Could Be Giving Wrong Diagnosis
A medical officer carrying out tests/Courtesy photo Experts have warned that clinicians could be offering the wrong diagnosis to patients amidst high rates of unexplained bacterial and viral infections that seem not to heal easily. Dr Hakim Sendagire, a Biochemist based at Makerere University Microbiology lab says lately they
Read MoreOngoing renovation works at the Jinja regional referral hospital's Intensive Care Unit-ICU. The Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) Engineering Brigade has started renovating the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (JRRH). One of the engineers told our reporter on condition of anonymity so as to speak freely on the matter since he
Read MoreVocational education is optional in Uganda Educationists are worried that the government's move to make Vocational occupations optional might kill the spirit of the lower secondary curriculum before it is fully implemented. According to the lower secondary curriculum, learners are supposed to attend vocational studies from which they can
Read MoreThe prices of fuel products in Uganda will be determined by the market forces of demand and supply when the country starts producing its own petrol, diesel and kerosene or others. How much Ugandans buy petroleum products will, therefore, depend on what is happening around the world and, to a
Read MoreUganda remains one of the countries with high maternal, infant mortality rates and nutrition challenges in the world according to the World Health organization. As of 2021, the infant mortality rate for Uganda stood at 42 deaths per 1000 live births above the Sub-Saharan Africa average of 27 per 1000
Read More