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 […]
Health experts in Mbarara City have expressed concern that people living with HIV in who have been on treatment and care are dropping out. The HIV focal person in Mbarara City Dorcus Twinabaitu during a media training session on Tuesday said that many young women and girls stopped their treatment a few months later after […]
The State House Health Monitoring Unit has raised concern about deliberate absenteeism in health facilities in the Busoga sub-region. Officials from the unit have spent the past two weeks carrying out spot checks on health center IIIs and IVs. Warren Naamara, the Head of the Unit notes that some staff fake sickness and study leaves, […]
Countries around the World on May 23rd carry out a campaign to highlight the gravity and the need to end obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula, that is preventable, is a serious and tragic childbirth injury. Obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum or both, caused by prolonged, obstructed labour without access […]
Provision of free treatment to foreigners at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has caused concern among Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (Central Government). Appearing before the committee chaired by Muwanga Kivumbi on Tuesday, 14 May 2024, the Executive Director, Dr Jackson Orem informed the committee that the institute provides free treatment to […]
At least 100 pupils of Ewanga Primary School in Ewanga sub-county, Madi Okollo district, missed their end-of-term one examinations due to an outbreak of conjunctivitis, commonly known as red eye disease. School authorities reported that the most affected pupils are those in the lower classes. As a preventive measure to contain the spread of this […]
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit working together with the Crime Investigation Department on Friday arraigned before Makindye Chief Magistrates Court a member of staff at Kiruddu Hospital on charges of possessing suspected property and unlawful possession of government stores. Court identified the suspects as Tumukugize Darlington, a biomedical engineer at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital. It […]
Health experts are blaming the persistent cases of cleft lip and palate in the West Nile sub-region to poor nutrition and harmful habits like smoking and alcohol consumption among expectant mothers. Cleft lip and palate is a birth defect that commonly affects unborn children which usually manifests as openings or splits in the upper […]
Police in Jinja City used tear gas to disperse Jinja Referral Hospital health workers who had staged a sit-down strike within the hospital premises. The health workers were protesting Minister Samuel Mayanja’s decision to allocate 4.6 acres of contested land to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) for development. Despite the police deploying personnel, tear […]
Yellow fever is a largely zoonotic disease endemic to South America’s tropical regions and Africa’s sub-Saharan regions. The yellow fever virus belongs to the Flavivirus genus and causes acute febrile hemorrhagic fever and jaundice. It is transmitted to humans through Haemagogus and Aedes mosquito vectors and has a high fatality rate. Current efforts to control […]