Health workers

Parliamentary health committee decries state of public health facilities

Parliamentary health committee decries state of public health facilities

The parliamentary health committee report released to parliament on public health facilities in Kampala district and eastern Uganda has exposed rot in performance of the ministry of health over health service delivery to public. While presenting to parliament a health report the chairperson of the parliamentary health committee who is the MP for Bukuya county […]

Health workers runaway at the site of babies born with spina bifida

  This is a special edition of our health news briefing only focusing on some two of the most vulnerable categories of physical disability. That is persons with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. There are increasing cases of children born with spina bifida in Uganda ( a congenital disability), but many people even doctors and health […]

Mulago Hospital workers appeal for more support as MPs visit

Patients and health workers and authority cry foul over congestion in Mulagao hospital while the opposition MPS visit the hospital and patients today. The opposition MPS who included Hussien Kyanjo , Richard sebuliba Mutumba  Mathias Mpuga and Dr. Lulume Bayiga led by the leader of opposition Nathan Nandala Mafabi  visited Mulago hospital to assess the […]

Butabika medics resume work

The situation at Butabika National Referral Psychiatric Hospital has returned to normal after the medics who had gone on a sit-down strike resumed work. The nurses and some senior medics at Butabika hospital went on strike yesterday demanding for their salary arrears and the reinstatement of their risk allowances which were cut off by the […]

Mulago hospital introduces customer care course for health workers

In effort to improve health service delivery, Mulago hospital has started a training course for its workers. The workers who are mostly medical workers and Midwives have been trained on how to improve on customers care services while attending to patients. The acting assistant commission support service David Nuwamanya says a number of Hospital workers […]

Health workers in Lira municipality to hold a sit-down strike over delayed salaries

Health workers in lira municipality have threatened to go on seat down strike to protest against the delayed payments of May salaries. On Monday the health workers stormed the office of town clerk demanding to know why their salaries for May had not yet been paid and why no one has battered to communicate the […]