Officiating at the launch of the two guidelines in Kampala today, the health minister reminds the health practitioners that these guidelines are fully and clearly prescribing the basic treatment a health worker should use while proving health care to a patient which adds on to their already acquired knowledge from medical school and cautions them not to shelve the guidelines.

Dr. Ruth Aceng

The assistant commission pharmacy in the health ministry, Dr.Seru Morris adds that the two guidelines are having new disease guides which were not included in the old edition among them being, TB, Diabetes, Sickle cells, Monopoles, prostate, nutrition, nodding disease among other non communicable diseases and their respective treatment guidelines and at which health center levels.

But the end users of these guidelines at the respective health facilities now recommend that govt ensures that the information in the guidelines is well disseminated to health workers and officers across the country for effective use if health service provision is to improve,explains Ivan Kamya. 

The two guidelines which are to be distributed to govt and private health facilities, training schools, respective health practitioners associations are geared towards promoting high quality health care by guiding health medicine supplies, equipment supplies as used for treatment.

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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 district health inspector Fredrick Byenume says victims develop red eyes, general body skin rash, cough, diahorrea, vomiting and a running nose but did not have the exact diagnosis to prove the disease.

Speaking to the journalist after receiving the results, the ministry’s public relations officer Lukia Nakamatte said they have intensified treatment to ensure that the disease does not spread to other parts of the country.

Nakamatte adds that they continue to trace for patients with symptoms and subject them timely medication.

Meanwhile the outbreak is now said to have spread to neighboring Buliisa district.

The acting Buliisa district health officer, Robert Mugabe says that 15 cases have so far been reported at the various health facilities in the district.

The affected sub counties are Buliisa, Kigwera and Butyaba all in Buliisa district.

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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 Uganda for parents to bring their children for routine immunization against the 8 killer immunisable childhood diseases: Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza type B.

The minister says that when all children under five years receive drops of polio vaccine at the same time, the circulation of the virus that causes polio is interrupted. He says that once immunization is properly conducted it will lead to eradication of polio in Uganda. According to the national immunization progamme, June and July rounds of polio immunization exercise would be conducted from house to house.

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