The minister of Health Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye says that government should have an intervention to cut on the number of health experts running abroad for better pay. Dr. Tumwesigye says that the ministries of public service and finance should speed up the law establishing the salaries remuneration board that will remunerate health experts in a better […]
PATIENTS in Masaka hospital are staring death in the face following the National Medical Store’s (NMS) failure to deliver lifesaving drugs for 2 weeks now sighting the recent closure of roads by government as a cause for the delays. The roads were closed during the visits of South Korean and Turkish presidents to Uganda earlier […]
The World health organization is tasking Uganda to fully implement the plain packaging of all tobacco related products to ensure that consumers are totally protected and kept in the know on the dangers that come along when they continue consuming tobacco products as well as protecting the young from the habit. According to the WHO […]
Ugandans have been advised to go for Sickle cell screening before marriage to avoid the genetic condition of sickle cell. The Researcher attached to Uganda Infectious Disease Institute Andreas Kuznik spoke during the 6th international Symposium sickle cell disease in Africa held at Hotel Africana. Kuznik says it’s very useful for people to know their status to avoid having children […]
ARINGA SOUTH MP, Odria Alioni Yorke plans to aggressively embark on ensuring that social services like water, education and income generating activities are put in place to improve the live hood of Aringa people and Arua at large. Odria says that government has put in place livelyhood programs to help the youth and the women however […]
Government is set to institutionalize the purchase of fortified maize flours to enable students at institutions of learning to eat food rich in minerals and nutrients. This was disclosed by the head of Nutrition programme at the Ministry of Health Dr. Jacent Asiimwe while speaking at the Fortification Assessment meeting held in Kampala, adding that government […]
The Chairman of Uganda AIDS Commission Professor Vinand Nantulya says the commission is going to engage the religious leaders separately from different sects to ensure that they deliver the messages of HIV/AIDS effectively to the followers. While launching a report on the status of the stigma and discrimination among HivAids patients that was carried out in central and south western […]
Out patients who get health services at Mulago National Referral Hospital have today been seen stranded after reaching the gates of the hospital to find huge notices that the services they have been getting from Mulago have been relocated to Kirrudu hospital in Makindye as Mulago Hospital under goes renovation. Some of the patients we […]
Parliament has passed the Uganda Heart Institute Bill, 2015 which will make the Institute a self-accounting body with a budget independent of the Health Ministry. The object of the Bill is to establish the Institute as an autonomous government agency mandated to undertake and coordinate the management of cardiovascular diseases. Presenting a report on the […]
Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze Bakireke is moving a private members bill to regulate Alcoholic drinks. Nambooze is fronting a bill known as the Alcoholic drinks control bill 2016 to repeal the Enguli Act of 1966 which is believed to not be a deterrent because of its weak penalties. She says that she is the […]