Measles

Dr Ruth Aceng advises health workers on clinical guidelines

Dr Ruth Aceng advises health workers on clinical guidelines

The health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng is urging all health workers to use the revised Uganda clinical guidelines 2016 and essential medicines and health supplies list for Uganda 2016 books as they go about their daily duties, saying these will help provide them guidance when treating patients. Officiating at the launch of the two guidelines in […]

Measles outbreak confirmed in Hoima

The Uganda Virus Research institute has released medical results confirming that the strange disease that has affected the people of Hoima district is measles. Last week the ministry of health took samples to the research institute to establish whether the disease that has so far claimed is killing people in Hoima district measles. The Hoima […]

Government to immunize children house to house

  Children bellow five years in Uganda received extra doses of oral polio vaccine even if they had already been immunized and children aged six months to 59 months received measles vaccine irrespective of the previous immunization status and vitamin A supplementation. The Mister for health Christine Androa says that it’s now a policy in […]