No patient who visits any government health facility and is admitted will be sleeping on the floor as they receive treatment. This has been confirmed by the life minister, Elioda Tumwesigye while at the handover ceremony where the Chinese government donated 7000 patient beds, drip stands and mattresses. The minister who expressed misery over the […]
Environment experts reveal that water scarcity affects about 40% of the world’s population and is bound to worsen as a result of climate change. The board chairman National Forestry Authority Gershom Onyango is concerned that the world is not treating the gravity of water crisis as seriously and calls on government to ensure the effective management […]
As the country joins the rest of the world to celebrate the International Oral Health Day on 20th March 2016, government is to start teeth preventive program for primary school children attending schools near all the regional referral hospitals. The Ministry of Health Principle Dental Surgeon Dr. Juliet Nabbanja says that dentists will apply fluoride gel […]
Health officials are worried that the sickle cell burden in Uganda is growing higher each day which is likely to affect the future generation. They say that every year over 20,000-25000 babies are born with sickle cell which is not compared to any other disease. Sickle cell disease is an inherited disease from one’s parents especially […]
The parliamentary health committee has vowed to push for the independence of both Heart and Cancer Institutes. The committee is currently scrutinizing the Cancer Institute and Heart Institute Bills that will facilitate total autonomy of these two institutes. Speaking to media yesterday, the committee chairman Dr. Medard Bitekyerezo said in the remaining three months the committee […]
The Uganda national renewable energy and energy efficiency alliance (UNREEEA) is tasking the government of Uganda to rethink on increasing the access to renewable energies among the nation across the country if the country’s environment and natural endowment is to be saved from massive degradation. Addressing a news conference ahead of the alliance’s first ever annual […]
The Ministry of health has confirmed the outbreak of Rift valley fever in Kabale western Uganda. The new reports in the Ministry of health given to the media at the media centre today by the Director General of health services Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng show that there are three new suspected cases identified and their blood […]
Many pregnant women have taken up different endeavours to avoid the unwanted weight gain during the nine months; they have taken to exercise, pregnancy yoga, walking, swimming, name it. However, some are not of this view and go ahead to eat for two, having the leeway given by a pregnancy. Whichever category a woman finds […]
After a very successful research on the use and prevention of the transmission of HIV from males to females by use of the Dapirvine virginal ring among Ugandan women, now the women who were used to carry out the research on and their men have come out to praise the new technology saying it is […]
The ministry for health warned health workers in West Nile against selling drugs meant for testing and vaccinating people against Hepatitis B. The warning came after Moyo woman MP Ann Auru told parliament that some health workers in her district are charging people shs 3000 to carry out tests on them about this disease. However, health […]