The equipment which includes two Ambulances valued as 270 million Shillings each, digitalized X-ray and Ultra Sound Machines, patient monitors, blood pressure monitors, wheelchairs and three motorcycles, was handed to Vice president Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi and Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on Tuesday.
Read more ...Sarah Byakika, the Commissioner Planning, Financing and Policy in the Health Ministry, says the scheme will ensure that residents have access to equitable, affordable and quality healthcare services.
Read more ...“If you want, I can press for you and you get some. It will keep your hands clean,” she told URN. There was no hand washing facilities or sanitizers at Imperial Royale Hotel. The head of marketing, Jim Kasavubu, said they don’t have plans to install such facilities since they will cause panic and scare aware their customers.
Read more ...Rachael Kitimbo Kayemba, a Nutritionist with Medical Teams International– MTI told URN that expert mothers help to train other families in the community to curb malnutrition and refer affected children to health workers.
Read more ...According to the District Health Officer - DHO, Dr Solomon Asiimwe, the district has a high teenage pregnancy rate of 25.6 per cent and a fertility rate of 7.8 per cent which is way above the national fertility rate of 5.4 per cent.
Read more ...Dr. Joseph Ruyonga, the Hoima District Health Officer says they have engaged the Health Ministry and World Health organization-WHO to support them with more logistics to establish more screening centers more especially in Hoima district.
Read more ...Children with fractures, rickets, knee deformities, bone infections, club foot were treated by a team of orthopaedics led by Dr Tito Bayeza, who is also the Tooro Kingdom Health Minister
Read more ...The officials also impounded 146 boxes of assorted human and animal drugs estimated at 68 million shillings.
Read more ...According to the Ssezibwa Regional Police Spokesperson Hellen Butoto, a trailer knocked dead two men travelling on a boda-boda motorcycle before driving off.
Read more ...Hydrocephalus is a condition that occurs when high volume of cerebrospinal fluids accumulate in the brain cavities, causing the swelling of the skull and the head. The condition commonly occurs in infants.
Read more ...The Traditional Dance is a much loved traditional entertainment among the Alur people and it is also a social gathering which unites the local people to appreciate their Traditional Heritage.
Read more ...As of June 2019, WFP Uganda provided monthly unconditional, unrestricted cash transfers to around 360,000 refugees in eight settlements that include; Adjumani, Rhino, Kiryandongo, Lobule, Kyaka II, Rwamwanja, Kyangwali and Nakivale.
Read more ...Ambrose Shilimi, the Head Teacher Covenant nursery and primary school says that during the rainy season, the sewerage spills and floods in part of the school compound.
Read more ...The abattoir was constructed at Bulyankuyege in Nyenga Division at 65 million shillings.
Read more ...The health workers will be trained in proper diagnosis of different types of cancers in both adults and children. They will also be trained on how to provide world-class care using new technologies to treat cancer in Uganda.
Read more ...Kadaga argues that re-usable pads are often cheap and convenient since they can be used several times when the girls are in their menstrual cycle. The speaker was on Friday evening speaking at the launch of Karooro Okurut foundation industrial park Rwebango cell in Nyakabirizi division in Bushenyi Municipality
Read more ...Those vaccinated are believed to have been in contact with the three Ebola cases that were reported in Kasese.
Read more ...Dr Nixon Niyonzima the laboratory director and head of research and training UCI says that they receive a quarter of the cases that they should be treating at the institute. He attributes the low number of patients seeking treatment to inadequate treatment facilities in the country.
Read more ...David Ssemakula the Nakaseke Hospital Administrator explains that an assessment by Dash Technologies Uganda Ltd discovered that the monitor requires repairs estimated at 10 million Shillings. Ssemakula adds that the district has to wait for the Ministry to renew a contract authorizing the suppliers; Dash Technologies Uganda Limited, to repair the machine
Read more ...They pointed out that Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV-PMTCT has been successful in many countries. They called for initiating compulsory Hepatitis B and C screening for mothers during antenatal.
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