Records from Kitgum General Hospital show that in June the facility registered 1,310 patients tested positive to malaria. 413 of those who tested positive were children under the age of 5 years, while 879 children were above 5 years of age.
Read more ...The operation targeted shopping, stores and warehouses in Kitgum Municipality where several cartons and packets sachet waragi were discovered.
Read more ...Mathew Opwonya Labreste, the Laguri village Chairperson, says that upon interrogation the Boda boda rider, said he was hired by Beatrice Abalo, the area female youth councilor to transport the maize flour to her home.
Read more ...Dr Pope Paul Okwera was interdicted following numerous allegations raised against him by the Health Unit Management Committee headed by Ventorine Okello. They allege that Dr Okwera’s inaccessibility discouraged patients from accessing the health facility.
Read more ...The College Principal Christine Chandiru says the institution cannot continue with normal operations due to failure by the central government to release its capitation grants and wages totaling to over 90 million shillings for the last quarter of the 2018/2019 financial year.
Read more ...The Kitgum District Chief administrative Officer Roselyn Adongo Luhoni says that the funds were meant to cater for wages of newly recruited staff since the recruitment process was still on-going and another 78 million shillings was intended to cater for pensioner’s gratuity and salary arrears.
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