The Uganda Blood Transfusion Secretariat has expressed concern over low levels of blood available to save lives. During a meeting with the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, an update on the status of the blood donation drive, UBTS Director Dorothy Kyeyune said the shortages are due to the low levels ofblood donations in the country and lack of money to […]
Members of parliament on the committee of Defense and Internal Affairs are demanding for the resetting up of a rehabilitation Centre for drug addicts. The committee vice chairperson Milton Muhuma says the arrest and penalizing of those found abusing drugs is not enough in eliminating drug abuse in the country. Muhuma says there is need […]
The Minister in charge of Primary Health care James kakooza has visited the victims of police action in yesterdays walk to work demonstration against increased food and fuel price. Kakooza has consoled the victims at Mulago hospital and accused the police and the military of being wrecklaceless as they fired teargas in schools and […]
A coalition of human rights and maternal healthcare activists has petitioned the constitutional court seeking to force the government to provide basic maternal health care in order to reduce the number of mothers dying while giving birth. Mary Kamukama who is leading the group says the government has not done enough to combat maternal mortality, […]
The Lions Club of Uganda has offered free treatment to patients of sight related diseases in Masaka district and the surrounding areas. While launching the treatment at Masaka referral hospital the Club’s governor for Uganda and Tanzania Wilson Tumwiine said the program will cost 200 million shillings. Tumwine says they have found many cases of […]
After years, in fact decades of operations against HIV/AIDS, where have we reached and what have we learned in efforts to prevent infection and curtail the impacts of HIV/AIDS on our communities? Gerald Businge writes that about the successes and challenges in Uganda and the need for fresh thinking in face of a growing HIV positive population and stagnant infection rates.
A Report from the Ministry of Health indicates that lose of government medicine to the fraudulent health workers is on increase. While addressing a press conference in Kampala Dr. Diana Atwine, the head of the recently Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit said several health officials across the country are being investigated over medicine […]
The health situation of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kalangala district is alarming as 8 people in one Sub County of Bujumba have died in the past three weeks due to inaccessibility of anti-retroviral drugs in the district. The Chairman LC5 Daniel Kikola says that the situation has gone out of hand when the NGO […]
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The pigs that were supplied to some residents of Masaka district under National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program are getting depleted by what some are calling African swine flu disease. The Masaka district Veterinary Officer Lawrence Bayiga says that about 500 cases of pig deaths have been recorded in a period of two weeks. Bayiga […]