Members of Parliament under their umbrella organization, Network for African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians (NAWMP) have criticized the Government for re-allocating the 30m US dollars borrowed for maternal and child health. During the briefing this morning at Parliament, the publicity secretary for the forum Rose Muyinda says that the said money is allegedly re-allocated for […]
Members of Parliament on the social services committee of parliament have expressed their dissatisfaction on the way resources from the ministry of health are distributed. They say that the ministry favours some district hospitals while distributing resources living others in a demanding situation. According to Oyam county south mp Betty Amongi, the way the resources […]
Members of Parliament on the parliamentary committee on social services have quizzed the managers of Mulago hospital to explain why the charges for dead bodies at the hospital mortuary are not uniform. The MPs say that the administration should either scrap the fees for getting dead bodies from the mortuary or else they make it […]
Parliament has vowed to block the budget of Mulago National Referral Hospital for failure to indicate concrete plans to improve the status of the hospital. The hospital officials, led by Executive Director, Dr. BB Byarugaba, had appeared before the committee to defend its budget for this financial year. Several MPs noted that the state of […]
Flavia Kisembo, 70, is a happy woman today. In 2002, Kisembo was a miserable village grandmother as she considered the future of her remaining two HIV positive grand children. Kisembo had lost three of her children, a son and two daughters to HIV/AIDS. Some of her grandchildren also died from the same disease. When the […]
Ultimate Media The management of Mulago hospital has said that the government ignores the hospital’s eye department leaving it incapacitated to handle ye ailments of Ugandans. While talking to the media in Kampala, the in-charge of the eye ward, Prof. Agaba Atenyi said that the government has bought very few eye machines adding that most […]
Over 100 males have today undergone medical circumcision at Mukono health centre as government promotes the procedure that the World Health Organization says could reduce the risk of HIV infection by 60%. The circumcision being offered free of charge has been launched in Mukono by the Makerere Walter Reed Project and will be continuous as one of the […]
Lwengo district woman mp Gertrude Nakabira Lubega has called upon the ministry of health to allocate health workers to the health center Two’s in the area which were constructed two years ago. Speaking to the press at parliament Nakabira said that government constructed health centres in every sub county but many of them have never […]
The ministry of health has set aside 1.3 billion shillings to purchase new uniforms for health workers across the country. The minister for health Dr. Christine Ondoa told mps on the committee of social services that the money will be reallocated from the budget of Uganda medical stores to enable health professionals acquire the uniforms. […]
The mp for Mbarara municipality Medard Bitekyerezo has advised medical practitioners to be innovative and kind as they carry out their work. Speaking to journalists at parliament Bitekyerezo said that doctors have to unite and come up with something that can help Ugandans to get better services. He said that medical workers are trained to […]