Health

Apac district council has passed a by-law to curb the rising cases of teenage pregnancies and child marriage in the district. The ordinance passed on Monday calls for punitive action against defilers and irresponsible parents....

FINCA Uganda (MDI) and Bright Life Uganda, a solar company, have donated one million three hundred thousand masks worth approximately GBP 120,000 to the Ministry of Education and Sports to ease on the opening of...

Uganda Cancer Institute is set to host SIOP Africa Congress from16th – 18th March 2022 at the Serena Kampala- Hotel. The event will take place under the theme “Innovate for Africa”. The congress will encompass...

Health experts are puzzled by the sharp reduction in Covid-19 infections and deaths. As of yesterday Monday, only nine patients with critical Covid-19 were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Mulago National Referral...

A new report by WHO and UNICEF, released today on Global Handwashing Day, reveals that giving everyone in the world’s poorest countries access to handwashing with soap and water, would cost around $11 billion. That...

The Ministry of Health on Monday opened more vaccination centers in Kampala, in efforts to inoculate more people against COVID-19. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, spokesperson of the ministry revealed that the new centers would be located in...

On Thursday, 16 September 2021, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Matthias Schauer, handed over five ventilators to Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, Deputy Executive Director of the Mulago National Referral Hospital and Dr....

Uganda Civil Aviation Authority's Director Airports and Aviation Security, Eng. Ayub Sooma, was on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 vaccinated against COVID19 with Sinovac by Kazuri Medical Centre staff at Entebbe International Airport. A total of...

The National Medical Stores (NMS) has Tuesday afternoon received COVID-19 health supplies which were donated to Uganda by France. The items include one million FFP2 face masks, 54,000 testing kits and nine respirators. The donation...

The government has said discussions are underway to regulate the high cost of COVID testing in accredited laboratories which is limiting access and greatly affecting pandemic fight. Dr Susan Nabadda, the commissioner of laboratory and...