About the father of the babies, Nankya says he is a fellow student who has no ability to take care of her and the babies. A 16-year-old girl Senior Three Student is lying in shock at a health facility in Butalejja district following her giving birth to quadruplets (four babies). Nankya Mwanjuma, a student at […]
At least 270 undeployed medical interns in Northern Uganda are asking the government to scrap medical internships after graduation. This suggestion comes a few days after President Yoweri Museveni, said the government did not have funds to pay for medical internships, and wondered why the sponsors of their education could not continue doing so during […]
Health workers operating at the Kigorobya Health Center IV in Hoima district are concerned over the increasing cases of teenage pregnancies and early marriages in the area. Information obtained from the health facility reveals that it receives more than 30 cases of teenage pregnancies monthly, where most of the girls are aged between 14 to […]
The Ministry of Health has classified 23 districts on the Uganda-DRC border as high risk for potential importation of the monkey virus MPOX. The Minister of Health, Jane Ruth Aceng said five of the 23 districts are hosting refugees from DRC, while Kampala is included on the list. A one-year MPOX preparedness and response plan […]
| MUKONO | KYAGGWE TV | Residents from the four villages covered by the over 136 acres of land which Kampala Capital City Authority purchased in order to shift the Kiteezi garbage landfill together with their leaders have protested the move saying they are not ready to welcome Kampala’s rubbish problems. The locals that raised […]
| KISOGA-MUKONO | KYAGGWE TV | A 34-year-old Jaliru Maasa is filled with happiness resulting from the recovery of his eyesight which he had completely lost in 2020 as a result of cataract disease (ensenke). A resident of Ssozi village in Mpatta sub-county, Mukono district, Maasa said that the past over four years have been […]
“We have been struggling with transport, looking for the best vehicle whenever we go for field work. We now have the best. We are also happy that a Ugandan company has produced the bus for us,” said Sister Jane Francis Namuddu, the Principal of St. Michael Lubaga Hospital Training School. St. Michael Lubaga Hospital Training […]
During the operation in Northern Uganda, drugs mostly anti- malarias meant for a Health Center in Kole District were found in a drug shop owned by a health worker in Alebtong District. The National Drug Authority (NDA) has impounded drugs worth sh54m. The drugs were impounded during an operation conducted in the districts of Northern […]
The Parliament Committee on Government Assurances and Implementation is investigating the Circumstances under which officials at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Gulu City allegedly disaggregated its Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The probe comes after a visit by members of the Committee chaired by Abed Bwanika on Friday to follow up on government assurances and promises […]
The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has remanded the former Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr. Byarugaba Baterana Bonaventura to Luzira prison on charges of abuse of office. He and six others are accused of causing the government a sh6.3bn loss in irregular and double payments. They were on Wednesday arraigned before the Court presided over by the Acting […]