While the disease hasn’t claimed a life in Uganda, Moriku says there’s always a fear of the uncertainty involved with the disease as lessons learnt from elsewhere show that it can easily progress into critical and death. She said that while the physical toll could be disregarded, the disease takes a heavy mental toll.
Read more ...A total of 291 are expected to arrive today from the United Arab Emirates and 150 others will come from India on Saturday. Some of these will occupy the public quarantine centers, Mugahi says and promises a good service although he notes that while the returnees in these facilities will have appropriate distancing as they will be sleeping in individual rooms, they will have to share ablution areas which is against the World Health Organisation guidelines for quarantining.
Read more ...Lazarus Mukasa, the Manager Operational Analysis at the authority says that fraudsters are presenting themselves as producers of essential commodities but disappear once availed with credit card information.
Read more ...The disorder characterized by seizures and convulsions in a woman with high blood pressure in pregnancy is a potentially dangerous complication often results in serious or even fatal difficulties for both mother and baby.
Read more ...Raphael Omony told journalists shortly after delivering his petition to the council on Thursday that the hospital transfused the bleeding mother with a lot of blood, which affected her Pulmonary hypertension alias blood pressure.
Read more ...Dr Katumba Ssentongo, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC) Registrar said that the tribunal that will sit at the hospital will first hear testimonies from the baby’s family before questioning the six doctors at the hospital.
Read more ...Christelle Jocquet, the Resident Representative of the Belgian Development Agency said at a handover event held at the Ministry of Health on Wednesday that the idea of making a contribution towards surveillance was arrived after an earlier meeting with Ministry revealed the need to revamp surveillance and risk communication with the onset of community transmission of the viral respiratory disease.
Read more ...As the country prepares to receive about 3,000 Ugandans that are stranded in the various countries, Nantege calls upon the authorities to review their quarantine policy and have coordinated interventions which do not put returnees into psychological distress.
Read more ...Overall, while 88.4 per cent of the patients were satisfied with timeliness and helpfulness of service providers in the provision of health care and information as the majority acknowledged waiting for less than 15 minutes before being served. However, 71 per cent of the respondents were not satisfied with the cost of services at the various facilities complaining that they were too high when compared to their income.
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