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Cholera hits Arua district

Three people have died in a fresh Cholera outbreak in Arua district. 27people have been already been admitted  in the different health facilities . According to the assistant director disaster management at the Uganda Red Cross society, Kevin Nabuduwa, the district health officers and Red Cross are doing all it takes to contain te disease She attributes […]

Symptoms of anorectic malformation, children born without anus

It is so shocking for one to produce an anorectic malformation child (child born without anus). In some cultures and families in Africa, such a child is thrown in a pit latrine, along the roadside, bush or killed and secretly buried. Anorectic malformation occurs when the final part of alimentary canal [called the anus and […]

Governance to close schools without pit latrines

Education and Sports Minister, Jessica Alupo has threatened to close all primary and secondary schools around the country that would be found without pit latrines or toilets.  Ms Alupo says that her ministry has got reports that some schools in the country especially in rural areas and slums operate without toilets or pit latrines.  The […]