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 6^th floor bed No. 7.

The reason she has been tortured and stripped naked is because she led a big team of women who petitioned Parliament, challenging the brutality meted out to vendors, especially women who toil to fend for their families.

Uganda is one of the African countries where women’s rights are abused by some leaders in power.

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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 no one was ready to tell me what had happened to my baby. The baby was hidden from me for over two days.

The nurses at Mulago hospital later told me that the baby had a wound on the back. I asked whether the baby was injured during delivery. The nurses eventually told me that the baby had a natural wound from God.

I kept wondering what wound could that be but my attendants and nurses could not tell what it was not until another doctor called Ddumba from Mulago Hospital came and explained to me what it was. She explained to me and referred me to CURE children’s hospital in Eastern Uganda.

Now just imagine the pain I went through because this was my first time to see such a baby and with less information about my child’s condition. Everybody feared my baby including nurses.

Spina bifida and hydrocephalus are not new cases in Uganda, but not much has been done to make the people aware of the conditions, how the patients can be handled, where they can be treated, or even how it can be prevented.

When you produce such a child, stigma is all around you, people come to stare at the funny baby: some think you’re bewitched; some medical personnel fear to touch; relatives disown you. If you’re not lucky enough, the husband runs away and you remain all alone with your baby in dilemma.

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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 babies are colonized by it a few hours after birth.

Candida of the nipple may occur any time while breastfeeding, due to constantly wet nipples. The widespread use of antibiotics also encourages the overgrowth of candida.

Some infections also come up as a result of breastfeeding mother having sore nipples, turns candida from its harmless to a disease.

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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 this is because human breast milk is the healthiest form of milk for babies.

Benefits of breast feeding

1. The average of calories being used while breastfeeding help the mother lose weight after giving birth.
2. Breastfed babies have better arousal from sleep at 2–3 months
3. Breastfeeding appears to reduce the risk of extreme obesity in children
4. Breastfeeding is a cost effective way of feeding an infant, providing nourishment for a child at a small cost to the mother.
5. Breastfeeding may delay the return to fertility for some women by suppressing ovulation. A breastfeeding woman may not ovulate, or have regular periods, during the entire lactation period.
6. During breastfeeding beneficial hormones are released into the mother body and this helps in strengthening the maternal bond.
7. Less risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer.
8. Breastfeeding helps in preventing allergies in the babies

Women who are breastfeeding need to be careful about what they eat and drink, since things can be passed to the baby through the breast milk. Just like during pregnancy, breastfeeding women should avoid fish that are high in mercury, and limit lower mercury fish intake, alcohol and anything containing caffeine

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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 services at the ministry of health, Dr Jasinto Amandwa says they want to ensure that Health centres IIs have adequate midwives and equipment for effective operation.

Dr Amamdwa adds that the main objective is to reduce maternal mortality rates in rural and hard to reach areas.

In a related development, the reproductive health advisor at the World Health Organization Dr Olive Sentumbwe is calling for male involvement in promotion of safe mother hood.

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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 been approved by the World Health Organisation. The new drug if taken well can reduce on chances of adult to adult transmission of HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Alex Ario who is the acting programme manager of HIV/AIDS Control programme inUgandahas confirmed that the new option B+ drugs can be used in eliminating mother to child HIV transmission.

But the new Option B+ drugs are only given to men who are in a good health condition. The new drug suppresses HIV to undetectable levels.

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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, and knotting of the umbilical cord.

Knotting of the umbilical cord is fairly common in low developing countries like Uganda and happens in early pregnancy when the foetus has a lot of room to move around in the amniotic sac!

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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 the talk on the new born prince.

Speaking through his Katikkiro (prime minister), Eng. John Baptist Walusimbi, the Kabaka said that the full details about the new born prince and its mother would be revealed at the right time.

The Kabaka says that since the Katikkiro announced the birth of the new prince, several media houses, radio panelists and people on social networks like facebook have written literature and uttered statements that belittle the traditions, norms and virtues ofBugandakingdom. The Kabaka says that although he is a king a remains an individual who has a right to privacy. He says that it is improper for news publications like the New Vision, Bukedde Newspaper, Bukedde TV and all their sister organisations to write lies and belittling stories about the Kingdom of Buganda and the royal family in Buganda.

On January 24, 2012 the Chief Executive Officer of the New Vision Group, Robert Kabushenga authorised the publication of a photograph of a woman, and stated that she was the mother of Prince Richard Ssemakookiro.

Kabushenga apologised to the audiences across the country and the world at large for the mistake and regreted any inconveniences caused to the woman in the picture.

He stated that this was an error of judgment for which he took full responsibility. The Kabaka through his Katikkiro has said that all the information the New Vision and her sister media houses have been publishing concerning the looks of the mother of prince Semakookiro are false.

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