Dr. Lawrence Kazibwe, the acting Deputy Director, Kawempe National Referral Hospital, says the unit has capacity to handle 60 babies, but the number shoots up in the said months.
Read more ...Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Parliament, who launched the facility on behalf of President, Yoweri Museveni, warned young girls against leading reckless lives that can lead them to get fistula.
Read more ...Freddie Ssengooba, a Professor of Health Economics and Health System Management, says government should prioritize indoor insecticide residual spraying just like the use of mosquito nets.
Read more ...Justus Nsabimana, one of the leaders of Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union at Masaka Hospital, says at least 20 nurses have been ordered to leave the staff houses for failing to reapply. He says that they didn’t get any communication from the hospital as to why even those that have been occupying the staff houses had to reapply, something which they referred to as mistreatment by the hospital authorities.
Read more ...It is alleged that a Nursing Assistant identified as Charles Bwambale asked her to pay 100,000 Shillings for the purchase of items that she would require in the process. Often mothers are asked to have surgical gloves, exam gloves, plastic sheeting, razor blades, cotton wool, gauze pad, soap, cord ties, and a child health card, by the time they report to Hospital.
Read more ...The absence of the Board of Directors since 2017 implied that there was no oversight role on the functions of the health facility whose services cover the districts of Adjumani, Arua, Koboko, Maracha, Moyo, Nebbi, Yumbe, Zombo, parts of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Read more ...Ministry of Health has started training health workers in the districts of Kamwenge, Kabarole, Kitagwenda and Bunyangabu, who will be taking part in new intervention aimed at combating HIV/Aids that is being piloted in country.
Read more ...Sister Doctor Imelda Anthony Nabukalu, a Senior Obstetric Surgeon at St Joseph’s Hospital Kitovu in Masaka district, says they are yet to reduce the case burden due to emerging cases among younger girls.
Read more ...Dr. Lawrence Kazibwe the Director of Kawempe hospital says that they have capacity of admitting about 60 babies but the number of deliveries at the hospital is high at about 100 per day.
Read more ...The Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has said Government is currently considering licencing companies to grown Cannabis commonly known as Marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Read more ...Angela Ilakut, the Registrar Nurses and Midwifery council told URN that they had chosen to see the accused at a later date.
Read more ...Dr Charles Kiggundu, a Consultant Obstetrician at Kawempe National Referral Hospital, says the new guidelines allow health workers to give expectant mothers a dose of the drug comprising three tablets to take home as a form of prophylaxis.
Read more ...Towns in the districts of Bushenyi, Mitooma, Buhweju, and Sheema are operating without a single lagoon.
Read more ...Dr Kassahun Belay says preliminary findings of their study dubbed the 'Therapeutic Efficacy Study on Malaria', being conducted in Apac which has been ranked the most malarial place on earth, Arua and Mubende are showing up to 90 per cent of the samples have no signs of resistance.
Read more ...Artisanal miners often mix water with chemical elements like chlorine, bromine, fluorine and iodine to dissolve gold from gold ore. Now residents argue that this is exposing them to toxic bleaches, putting lives of neighbouring communities at risk.
Read more ...According to a statement released by the World Health Organisation this evening, preliminary findings are showing that drugs – REGN-EB3 and mAb114 were showing chances of survival from the hemorrhagic fever among patients than the other two being studied.
Read more ...Records indicate that the number of Malaria cases has increased by over 400,000 this year, from 1 million cases recorded by June 2018, to 1.4 million Cases by June 2019.
Read more ...This came to the limelight when up to 12-students who were enrolled for the Bachelor of Science in Midwifery Course in the academic year 2016/2017 failed to access internship placements after completing their final exams at the university. They were reportedly told by the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council –UNMC that the course is not accredited.
Read more ...According to David Nuwamanya, the facility’s Principal Administrator, the 1 million Shillings, currently charged per week is no longer enough to cater for the requirements for patients to be treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Read more ...Data, in relation to Kampala’s water supply, was collected from Kalimali communal sanitation block in Bwaise, Namuwongo, Nateete, Kalerwe and Kyebando, all in the outskirts of Kampala. The settlements form combinations of intermittent, undrinkable and un-affordable water supply for the inhabitants.
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