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Blood deficit in hospitals blamed on negative donation attitude

Isaac Senabulya — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:44:47 +0000

Ugandan negative attitude towards blood donation is cited as a factor contributing to scarcity of blood in blood banks. The blood donor recruiter with Nakasero blood Bank Ariho Franco says most Ugandan do not want to donate blood even when they are asked to do so leaving the exercise to a few people causing a big blood deficit in hospitals.

Ariho notes that currently the country is facing more shortage and calls for increased efforts towards donation to have the bank store with enough blood needed to give life to those that need it at that particular time. He urges religious leaders to always invite them to their respective places of worship to collect blood from the believers. However one of the pastors at triple blessing church Patrick Llubulwa says this is one of the reason they are having a crusade as a church to help give a life to those who need it through blood donation.

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Kadaga appeals for early cancer screening

Gerald Businge — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:42:23 +0000

The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has called for a mandatory tasting for cancer in Uganda as way of combating the disease in the country.

Speaking at the inauguration of health week in the parliamentary commission Kadaga said that the proposal for mandatory tasting was made last year but government is yet to take action.

She said that other countries have adopted the tradition and it has worked well for them

Kadaga also called upon government to fulfill the president’s pledge in the manifesto for putiing aside a fund for the vaccination of children against cancer. She called upon the mps to support the program in order to fight the increase of cancer in Uganda.

Incidences of cancer are on the increase in Uganda due to lifestyle changes such as increased consumption of fatty foods, alcohol, heavy smoking and little exercises.

The activities of the week will include among others; voluntary counseling and testing, blood donation, safe medical male circumcision, breast and cervical cancer screening, health fitness checks and exhibition from medical science providers.

By Isaac Senabulya

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Uganda blood transfusion services boos grilled over refusing opposition blood

Gerald Businge — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:02:14 +0000

MPs on the committee of social services grilled the director of Uganda blood transfusion services Dorothy Kyeyune for bringing politics in the blood collection exercise.

This was after a member of the committee Alice Alaso said the blood collecting body refused to collect blood from the people who were mobilised by the activists for change.

The authorities from the blood bank claimed that they had enough blood in stock to take the country for the next six months, but a few days later, the same leaders appealed for more blood as their bank was running dry.

The chairperson of the committee Sam Lyomoki said Kyeyune will have to resign if the country runs short of blood before these months elapse.

However Kyeyune said that by the time the leaders of activists for change approached them to mobilize people to donate blood they had enough blood in stock.

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