Ugandans who have been spending money to travel to India for brain and heart operations now have a chance to get quality treatment right here in Uganda. The Bangalore based Fortis hospital has promised to open a branch in Kampala. Fortis hospital is one of the leading hospitals in the world when it comes to conducting medical operations. Kyadondo […]
A team of lectures led by Proof Ogwal Okange a pharmacologist at Makerere University College of health sciences are in advanced stages of a research about plants that eats the malaria causing mosquitoes. Began last year, this scientific research is looking at finding out the effectiveness of the grass species that eat mosquitoes as one […]
The ministry of health has set up a special fund to handle any disease outbreak resulting from the various disasters across the country. Currently some parts of the country are experiencing floods which are likely to cause diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and diahoaria among other. The ministries public relations officer Rukia Nakamate says 200 […]
The president Yoweri Museveni has argued Ugandan to utilize the health facilities and services available to them in hospital and health centres warning that self medication is dangerous to human lives and must be avoided. While handing over Busheri hospital to the community at Busheri in Kiruhura district, the President argued the people of Busheri […]
Ugandan businessmen dealing in health products are planning to import a new HIV potable testing device recently developed in Rwanda. The inexpensive machine can tell whether a person has HIV or syphilis or both within only 20 minutes. The small blood test kit was developed by Samuel Sia, a scientist from the Biomedical department at the Columbia University USA. […]
The Ministry of Health has revealed that the government is planning to increase salaries for health workers in the next financial year. The Minister of Health; Dr. Christine Ondoa, told the parliamentary Committee on Social Services that the ministry has submitted its proposals to increase salaries of medical workers effective next financial year. According to […]
The Police in Canada have donated a state of the art Ambulance to residents of Ongutoi in abarilela sub county Amuria district. The ambulance was donated courtesy of a Canadian businessman Don McLaughlin who offered the ambulance to state minister for disaster preparedness Musa Ecweru. Ecweru however says the Ambulance will serve the entire Teso […]
Human Rights activist Robert Mugumya petitions parliament asking that it endorses comprehensive structural reforms in the country’s health care system. The petition he handed over to the speaker today points to a number of concerns including inadequate funding to the health sector, poor remuneration to medical workers and commercialization of health services in government hospitals […]
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has proposed that the money being used to buy mosquitoes nets be channelled to residual spraying of malaria causing mosquitoes as away to eradicate malaria in the country. Kadaga was speaking during a breakfast meeting that was organized by civil society organizations and parliament to make an input in a […]
Police in fort portal are holding a laboratory technician from Buhinga regional referral hospital for soliciting a bribe from a patient. The police have identified the suspect as Mwanguhya George aged 52 years and resident of Karambi SubCounty in Kabarole district. The victim who has been identified as Bakunda Deograsious says the lab technician asked for 150,000 shillings […]