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Uganda in TB drug shortage but government plans to import drugs in September

Gerald Businge — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:14:41 +0000

Uganda is experiencing TB drugs but the National Resistance Movement government is planning to import the TB drugs in September. Today is March 15, 2012. We don’t know whether TB patients will not have died by September. Currently most hospitals in Uganda have run out of drugs.

The minister for Health, Christine Ondoa has told a press conference in Kampala this morning that the Government has earmarked 4 billion shillings to procure TB drugs starting with the month of September.

Ondoa says that the government is planning to distribute the drugs once imported to both private and government aided health centers across the country. TB is still one of the major causes of death in Uganda and Africa in general. Uganda registers, according to the ministry of health 330 per 1000 patients who report at the hospitals.

Uganda also experiences inadequate supply of fluorescent microscopes used in laboratories. The few microscopes the country has were procured a few years back by Global Fund grants.

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‘Obama is in Uganda’

Gerald Businge — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:55:05 +0000

The Executive Director of the United States of America and President Barack Obama’s Global Health Initiative chief, Lois Quam has arrived in Uganda on Monday.

Lois Quam is in Uganda for a one week visit to support Uganda’s Ministry of Health’s effort to reduce maternal deaths by at least 50% in four western districts of Uganda by the end of this year.

According to the programme, Lois will tour the districts of Kabarole and Kyenjojo. Research shows that Kabarole and Kyenjojo are among the districts in Uganda where cases of maternal mortality are rampant.

The ministry of Health in Uganda recently released a report that indicated that the the common causes of death among pregnant women in Uganda are over bleeding, infection, obstructed labour, abortion and hypertension. Other causes of death among pregnant women in Uganda are malaria related diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Uganda’s maternal mortality ratio stands at 435 maternal deaths for each 100,000 live births. On daily basis at least 16 women/girls die during delivery.

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