According to residents of Bugogo Town Council where the girl was, when she presented with signs like vomiting, bloody diarrhea, fever and headache family members thought that it was witchcraft and instead of taking her to a health facility the girl was rushed to traditional healer for management. On 11 September, the girl passed on.
Read more ...Officials at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have confirmed that a mobile laboratory equipment is being installed to reduce on the time taken by patients waiting for results.
Read more ...Currently Fort Portal hospital is managing six health workers who were infected with Ebola at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital. The medics who were on Wednesday transferred from Mubende to Fort Portal for proper management and treatment comprise three doctors, two nurses and one anesthetist.
Read more ...Dr Ian Clarke, the Chairperson of Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF), told journalists that a hospital in Nairobi is starting kidney transplants soon and instead of flying to India for procedures, it will be cost-effective for Ugandans to seek this service in Nairobi as the country readies for the launch of similar services when an enabling law is finalized.
Read more ...The case is of a 23 year old man who died from St.Ambrose Charity Health Center IV in Kagadi on Tuesday with Ebola like symptoms.
Read more ...Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Director General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health said in an interview on Thursday that while they have received complaints about fears of infection, they are not considering withdrawing or transferring anybody from the hospital.
Read more ...The Uganda Virus Research Institute-UVRI confirmed eight positive cases of measles in the district on Wednesday.
Read more ...Dr Anthony Kafumbe, the Acting Deputy Secretary General for Productive and Social Sectors says that states need to enhance surveillance and laboratory testing, especially in border areas, implement appropriate infection prevention and control measures and increase risk communication and community awareness of the disease.
Read more ...The Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said organ transplant is increasingly becoming an area of health care used to cure non-communicable diseases that are rising rapidly. She also states concern about the increase in the trafficking and illicit trade in human organs, cells, and tissue.
Read more ...In a survey by URN at some of the major hospitals, there were gaps in enforcing Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures. They are no facilities for handwashing at entrances while some are experiencing stockouts of key protective gear for health workers like gloves and facemasks.
Read more ...The VHTs Program was established in 2001 as a cost-effective way to link communities with health services. VHTS were established by the Ministry of Health to empower communities to take part in the decisions that affect their health; mobilize communities for health programs, and strengthen the delivery of health services at house-hold level.
Read more ...Geoffrey Osborn Oceng, the RDC of Lamwo District, said the tests were necessitated by the outbreak of measles in neighboring South Sudan.
Read more ...Health officials revealed on Thursday that samples taken from an 18-year-old man who succumbed over the weekend tested positive for the viral disease. He had reportedly presented with symptoms similar to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Read more ...Museveni said, unlike the previous Ebola outbreaks, the Sudan strain that has been reported in Mubende is not very dangerous and therefore can be managed.
Read more ...“COMESA has a statutory committee called the COMESA Consumer Protection Committee. Once that committee issues a statement, that statement binds all COMESA member-states,” says Wetasa, who is also the Chairperson, COMESA Consumer Protection Committee.
Read more ...The volunteers worked previously on the frontline during one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in Gulu District in 2000 which killed more than 200 people.
Read more ...According to Herbert Luswata, the General Secretary of the Uganda Medical Association, three are medical workers, two are interns and one medical student. The samples of the health workers were sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute which confirmed the Ebola virus.
Read more ...Dr Justus Ampaire, an Obstetrician/Gynecologist based in Mbarara District says that protocols that are supposed to guide them in handling cases have never been reviewed and health workers, especially in upcountry districts, are still using equipment that has globally been phased out.
Read more ...The new publications are coming in just months after the WHO’s World Mental Health Report published in June showed that of one billion people living with a mental disorder in 2019, 15% of working-age adults experienced a mental disorder.
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