Police medical services in conjunction with Norvik Hospital are offering hepatitis B test and vaccination to police officers and communities around Naguru barracks. The activity which has kicked off today is to run for three days at Naguru Health Centre V in Naguru Barrack, Nakawa division in Kampala District. According to Muyama Joyce, the in […]
Uganda People’s Defense Forces and Uganda Prisons have so far failed to send a team of medical officers to Mulago, Kirudu and Kawempe hospitals to attend to patients. As the doctor’s strike enters day twelve, people continue to flock government hospitals around the country seeking medical services with many ending up frustrated after failing to […]
The Uganda nurses and midwives union has disassociated themselves from the court application that was filed by Uganda Medical Workers Union against the striking doctors. The union yesterday took all the striking doctors and medical practitioners to high court civil division for engaging into an illegal industrial action. RELATED: Health minister explains doctors strike The union […]
The minister of health Dr.jane Aceng has said that the current doctors strike is being fueled by the disparities in payment of public servants. While appearing before the health committee chaired by Bukuya county Mp Dr.Micheal Bukenya to explain why they have failed to resolve the Doctors problems related to poor payment, Aceng said that […]
Members of parliament on the health committee have grilled the ministers of health over high pricing of medicines by the National medical stores. The MP for Ntwetwe county Joel Sebikali said that the ministry of health is not acting on the high price of drugs caused by the National drug stores The chairperson of the health […]
Government has today launched a new approach to service delivery code named monitoring camps in the areas of health, education and agriculture in the rural communities. The Economic monitoring State minister Kasirivu Atwooki said the directorate of socio-economic monitoring and research directorate under the office of the president identified monitoring camps as the new approach […]
The legal and parliamentary Affairs committee scrutinizing the presidential age limit bill has given the medical experts two weeks to produce a report determining age impact on leadership. The committee request came while meeting the members of the Uganda medical Association over the bill led by the Association’s president Dr.Ekwaro Obuku. The committee chaired by Jacob […]
Ugandan President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today( 26th Oct 2017), commissioned Iran-Uganda medical center at Naguru, a Kampala suburb. “I want to start by thanking the Islamic Republic of Iran for this gift of a high tech healthy center , it will help deal with health issues of the police personnel , and other […]
The President, who was today speaking at the opening of the 4th Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) High Level Ministerial Meeting at Speke Resort Munyonyo Hotel in Kampala, stressed that the need for cooperation because Africa, where most of the disease outbreak occurs, has insufficient public health assets. Health Ministers from 41 countries are attending […]
In an effort to address the increasing school dropout of the girl child the people of Terego district have started locally manufacturing sanitary pads which is one of the biggest contributing factor. Internal affairs state minister and also Terego east MP, Obiga Kania says that he has initiated the project by ensuring that both men and […]