The National Medical Stores has pledged to avoid the past mistakes that were the cause of the drugs expiring in stores while Ugandans in need of the drugs suffered. This was in reaction to press reports that pinned NMS for being behind the loss of billions of shillings through its negligence that had caused the […]
Mulago National Referral Hospital has discharged all July 11th bomb victims. The Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital, Dr. Edward Ddumba has said the last batch of the bomb victims were discharged a couple of weeks back. Mulago Hospital received a total of 57 bomb victims, five of them died on arrival; three were […]
The Ministry of Health has secured a loan of about 260 billion shillings from the World Bank that it hopes to use in the infrastructural development of various hospitals in Uganda. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Nathan Kenya Mugisha has told journalists in Kampala that the ministry has also secured a […]
The Foundation of Human Rights Initiative has appealed to government to strengthen the laws that govern people that are involved in selling medicines in the country. While Speaking to journalists, the Chairman of the Initiative, Livingstone Sewanyana has said that all people have a right to good health and so the government has every reason […]
The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has ordered that the office of the Director of Public Prosecution presents the list of officials that were implicated in the mismanagement of Global Fund cash but have since admitted to the mismanagement and decided to return the cash. So far over 2 billion shillings has been returned from officials […]
Joint Ph.D. project between The Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (www.kt.dtu.dk) and Hempel A/S (www.Hempel.com). Background and aim: Growth of marine organisms on the hull of ships (fouling) is a major problem resulting in increased fuel consumption, reduced speed and increased docking times and maintenance cost. The fouling is usually […]
Over 34 Ugandan doctors have trained and acquired new knowledge in brain surgery at Mulago hospital. The doctors started the training in November 2009. This is the first time Ugandan medical doctors have studied brain surgery within Uganda. The head of Neurosurgery at Mulago Hospital, Dr. Micheal Muhumuza has said that the training in brain […]
A renowned scientists and Director of Avian Influenza and other Emerging threats Program at USAID Washington, Dr. Dennis Carol has proposed that the world should adopt risk based models to be able to fight the emerging threat of animal to human transmission of diseases as opposed to the traditional disease surveillance model of fighting disease. […]
The Prime Minister of Uganda, Prof. Apollo Nsibambi has called upon the National Alcohol Control Board to check on the consumption of alcohol in Uganda. Tens of Ugandans recently lost their lives due to consumption of suspected poisonous alcohol. Nsibambi asks the alcohol board to check on the quality and the rate of alcohol consumption […]
The Minister of Uganda for Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga has said malaria deaths are on steep decline in Uganda due to the government’s serious efforts to eliminate it throughout Uganda. He says hardly any children died of malaria in urban centres in Kampala and other parts of the country since May 2010. Addressing journalists in […]