Releasing the findings on Wednesday, Muhammed Ahamed Sharrif, a social researcher and principal investigator on the study, said they selected a rural and urban sub county in each of the districts where respondents would be asked questions in group discussions and individual interviews between January and October.
Read more ...Dr. Victoria Nakibuuka, a neonatologist at Nsambya hospital and head of the Pediatric Unit under, which the bank is being established, said the project is largely funded through donations and fundraising.
Read more ...Dr Lydia Mungherera, a board member at Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), says that fund was meant to start this financial year as Uganda Revenue Authority is supposed to be deducting a 2% tax off drinks such as beer, Soda and Water to finance the fund.
Read more ...According to Dr Julius Otim, a Child Health Advisor in the ministry, one of the challenges they are establishing in the on-going assessment is the fact that not many have trained to take care of the babies born too soon.
Read more ...Goslino’s blood connect project secured government approval through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Although he didn’t mention the exact amounts, Goslino confirmed that his company Flexdrone has already received funding for the project.
Read more ...The survey done by the departments of Social Sciences and Statistics of Makerere University involved 10,000 households selected from regions across the country.
Read more ...Ministry of Health statistics shows that 20 per cent of admitted patients in hospitals will need medical oxygen therapy especially children and pregnant women. While it is offered free of charge in government-owned facilities, some private facilities charge between 20,000 and 50,000 Shillings per hour for patients who need life support.
Read more ...Henry Ssemakula, a senior education officer who heads the Health/HIV unit in the Ministry of Education said schools still punish their students in ways that have been banned. The Ministry first banned corporal punishment in 2006 and followed up with circulars in 2011 and the latest in 2015.
Read more ...The news of the fraud came after a survey done by the Uganda Insurers Association found wide-spread cheating from hospitals, which forced some insurance to erase some of the clinics from the list of providers, at the beginning of this month.
Read more ...The scheme which will help private healthcare practitioners access credit is expected to start in July next year as they still await contributions from donors and contributing commercial banks.
Read more ...Speaking at the Private Health Sector Convention on Wednesday, Rukwaro, said that private players need to discuss with government more incentives that they can benefit from since he says for instance with pharmaceuticals the market is there but is not well leveraged especially with the National Health Insurance Scheme coming up.
Read more ...Mulero, says the walking stick, he has been working on for the last five years, is meant to aid the movement of visually impaired persons.
Read more ...Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says despite failed attempts to roll them out previously, they are still the highest ranking option when it comes to sensitization of the population about diseases that can be easily prevented and yet still claim thousands of lives.
Read more ...This is after the World Health Organisation (WHO) survey found one in ten medical products used in low and middle-income countries to be either falsified or substandard.
Read more ...Dr. Johnes Obungoloch, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science at Technology and the head of the Team developing this system says the idea of coming up with this technology that will be able to show the user the time the machine was last used, what it was used for, when it was last serviced and where it came from was reached considering the fact that most of the equipment in hospitals are run down shortly after they are installed.
Read more ...Dr. Johnes Obungoloch, a Biomedical engineer and deputy dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) said the Atomic Energy Council in the Ministry of Energy can’t do anything currently even as its responsible for dealing with radioactive devices such as the X ray and CT equipment.
Read more ...Dr. Gitahi Githinji, the AMREF Africa CEO said instead of returning user fees in hospitals, stakeholders should consider other ways of collecting the user fees early on in order to guarantee that someone will get the healthcare they need once they fall sick.
Read more ...Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng says previous surveys have shown pit latrine coverage to be higher, they were using parameters that don’t meet the requirements by the World Health Organization for one to be deemed an appropriate latrine.
Read more ...Dr. Gitahi Githinji, the CEO AMREF Africa says recent statistics are showing that globally sugar in both it’s visible and nonvisible forms is killing more people than accidents and terror activities and that sugar is more dangerous than gun powder.
Read more ...Henry Semakula who heads the Health/HIV unit in the Ministry said the revised guidelines that will soon be ousted have set official school time at 3pm to tackle the growing concerns of among others sleep deprivation among school going children, over loading their brains and not allowing them time for physical activities that are vital for their development.
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