Stories :: Category: Health :: Accepted date: September 2022

Updated: 07 Feb, 02:2002:20

• UN, Government Want Uniform Standards for Food and Agricultural Products in Africa

  5 Sep 2022, 21:08 Comments 649 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture Health Updates

  Speaking at the meeting which will be on until the 13th of September, Dr. Bayo Fatunmbi, the Acting World Health Organisation Representative to Uganda said they recently did an assessment of the food safety situation in the country and generated evidence that they will use to evaluate the gaps that can be filled in the country to be able to match with globally acceptable standards.

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• 1,300 Kikuube Residents Benefit from Free Medical Camp.

  5 Sep 2022, 09:01 Comments 501 Views Kikube, Uganda Health Updates

  Dr. Gerald Asaba, in charge of Buhaguzi health sub-district, who led the free medical camp, said there was a need to bring health services to the community since most of the community members cannot afford treatment.

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• Ngora Officials Decline To Commission New Health Facilities Over Shoddy Work

  5 Sep 2022, 07:10 Comments 463 Views Ngora, Uganda Local government Health Updates

  Stansylus Opio, the Ngora District Engineer, said that they have started engaging the contractors on the defects. He explained that the district has withheld 10 percent of the payment until the contractors complete and correct the defects.

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• Four Kotido LC3 Chairpersons Involved in Accident

  4 Sep 2022, 15:55 Comments 607 Views Health Human rights Crime Updates

  The accident happened at around 4pm on the Moroto, Kotido highway when the politicians were on their way back to Kotido from Moroto district. They had traveled to Moroto to met the Prime minister Robinah Nabbanja.

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• Heart Institute Requests Rotary to Sponsor 100 More Children Surgeries Amid Backlog

  3 Sep 2022, 16:04 Comments 559 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Dr. John Omagino, the UHI Executive Director said Rotary has over the years been sponsoring a hundred children each year to go for surgery but this support is only a drop in the ocean as up to eight thousand children need this intervention each year. The Institute handles a total of about a thousand babies where some are self-sponsored by their parents as this surgery costs five thousand dollars, unaffordable to many Ugandans.

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• Experts Want Division Youth Centres Revamped

  2 Sep 2022, 16:00 Comments 452 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  The experts including doctors, Ministry of Health officials, clerks, politicians, and private individuals who run adolescent clinics say that the youth desks and centres which had initially been set up at health facilities were non-functional.

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• Uncertainty as Cancer Institute Closes to Patients Sleeping on the Verandas

  1 Sep 2022, 17:34 Comments 518 Views Health Human rights Updates

  In a brief memo published Thursday, UCI says that it established a care home for patients who have nowhere to stay in Kampala during the course of their treatment and care at the institute.

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• Lira District Medical Workers Strike Over Unpaid Salaries

  1 Sep 2022, 16:38 Comments 609 Views Lira, Uganda Health Human rights Business and finance Updates

  On Thursday morning, the health workers from different facilities abandoned work and stormed the district Headquarters demanding an explanation from the district authorities.

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• Netherlands Feeds 2,000 Hungry Karimojongs

  1 Sep 2022, 15:37 Comments 625 Views Health Human rights Science and technology Updates

  Clementina Nangiro, a mother and a resident of Achere parish in Loputuk, said she was stressed about what to feed her children after going two days without food. "My children can also have two meals a day at least for these two weeks because it has been hard," she said.

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• MOH Receives Ultrasound Scan Machine That Uses Artificial Intelligence

  1 Sep 2022, 15:02 Comments 792 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  According to Eng. Deo Byabagambi, a Biomedical Engineer in the Ministry of Health, the machine was assessed for quality On Wednesday and what is pending now is assessing it while in use by the patients.

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• Despicable: Unoccupied Stalls at Arua Main Market Misused as Latrines

  1 Sep 2022, 13:00 Comments 489 Views Arua City, Arua, Uganda Health Business and finance Northern Updates

  The vendors in the market suspect that the despicable practice is being perpetrated by intruders, especially at night. They say that the suspected intruders normally sneak into the market in the evening and hide inside some of the unoccupied stalls on the first floor and thus get locked inside the market.

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• Suspected Ebola Cases from Kasese, Bundibugyo Turn Out Negative

  1 Sep 2022, 12:14 Comments 530 Views Kasese, Uganda Health Updates

  Charles Oluka, the world health organisation field coordinator says they have done follow-ups with the respective communities where the 'suspects' come from up to the family level and so far no report of symptoms has been recorded.

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• Mortuary Attendant Detained Over Bribery

  1 Sep 2022, 10:46 Comments 903 Views Kabale, Western Region, Uganda Health Updates

  According to Byamukama, they decided to contact the Health Ministry Spokesperson, Emmanuel Ainebyona, Kabale District Health Educator, Alfred Besigensi, and Kabale Resident district commissioner, Godfrey Nyakahuma for help.

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• Security Heightened at Mpondwe Following Ebola Out Break in DR Congo

  1 Sep 2022, 09:22 Comments 763 Views Kasese, Uganda Health East Africa Updates

  The Kasese deputy resident district Commissioner- RDC in charge of Bukhonzo county, Lt. Maate Magwara says they have increased security surveillance to close out all porous border points and ensure that all persons crossing into Uganda use the designated routes and are screened as required.

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