Ms Suzan Kushaba, a 33 year mother of three and chairperson of St. Balikuddembe (Owino) Market Vendors’ Association has been terribly clobbered by a team of ruthless Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) revenue collectors in Owino Market and she is currently bedridden at Case Clinic/Hospital in Kampala. She admitted on 6th floor bed […]
MY NAME is Hajati Hadija Nalugya, a mother of Agnes Nanyonjo, a child living with spina bifida. Nanyonjo was born with spina bifida in 2003 and later developed hydrocephalus. Like any mother, I prepared to have a healthy baby at MulagoHospital. After delivery and regaining my consciousness, I asked for the baby. But […]
Causes of candida of the nipple: Candida is a yeast infection or thrush is a fungus that thrives in warm, dark, moist environments such as the mucus membranes of the mouth and vagina. The diaper area, skin folds, bra pads and on persistently wet nipples. It normally lives on humans and 90% of […]
Wondering why children nowadays develop complicated disease as soon as they are born? Mothers these days are very busy with work and find no time to breastfeed. Breast feeding is one of the best things a mother should give to her child and its advised that they breast feed for six months and above […]
The ministry health has announced plans to equip Health Center IIs to deliver pregnant women. Previously, health centers IIs have been handling only general illness and primary health care. The announcement comes as the country joins the rest of the world to commemorate the safe mother hood day tomorrow in Kyenjonjo districts. The commissioner clinical […]
Uganda clinics have started selling a new drug meant to be administered to pregnant mothers. The new drug is called ‘option b+. The drug is used on pregnant mothers in order to replace mother to child HIV transition. Uganda has replaced the AZT drugs with this new Option B+ drugs. The new drug has […]
Causes of cord accidents or obstructed labour that is to say the baby gets stuck on its way either because it is too big or the mother’s bones are too narrow. There is also umbilical cord prolapse-this is when part of the cord drops out of the birth canal especially when ‘waters’ break through, […]
Following the publication of a photograph of a woman who the editorial team of the New Vision Group believed at the time to be the mother of the new born Buganda prince, Richard Semakookiro, the Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has asked all people in Uganda and across the world to stop […]