Residents and local community pressure groups in Bunyoro region want the Hoima and Kibaale district health official investigated over the expiry of government drugs. Hoima district health official Dr Joseph Ruyonga and his Kibaale counterpart Dr. Dan Kyamanya to be investigated as to why for the last nine (9) years the two districts failed to […]
Five medical workers attached to Bar health centre III in Lira district have come under fire for the alleged neglect of duty. Trouble arose from reports that they deliberately failed to attend to hundreds of HIV/AIDS patients that turned u at the Health centre for the last one week. The district Health officer Dr. Peter […]
A strange sexually transmitted disease has hit fishermen on Yube Island in Namayengo district. The disease presents its self with inching in the private parts, red eyes, fever and hair falling off, ten (10) days from exposure to the disease. Over 100 fishermen are conformed to have contracted the disease within the past two weeks […]
HIV prevalence rate among Boda boda riders in Kampala has reached at 7.5% in part to due some engaging in homosexuality while others sell sex to women. This according to the survey carried out by crane survey on 694 boda boda riders in Kampala of which 68% were married and 56% had fathered children. The […]
Over 700 people living with HIV/AIDS including women in Bar sub-county in Lira district pitched camp at Bar Hospital protesting failure by health workers to get them ARVs drugs. The patients have complained that for the last one week, they have been denied access to the life prolonging drugs for HIV positive people and no […]
The director of Uganda Heart Institute Dr. John Omongino has called on the government to increase funding to the Uganda heart institute. Speaking to the media, Dr. Omongino said the current funding by the government can only meet about 0.5% of what is required by the institute. He says most of the equipment and drugs required by […]
In a bid to have proper service delivery in the country’s health sector, the state minister for health, Richard Nduhura reveals the ministry is going to embark on serious monitoring, inspecting all health units in the country right from health centre twos. According to the minister, workers at these facilities have not effectively provide quality services to […]
The World Health organization confirmed that Uganda has completely eliminated Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus. The minister of state for Health Dr. Richard Nduhura says the government has confirmed that the disease is no longer a threat in Uganda. The certificate declaring the elimination of Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus in Uganda was given to the ministry […]
Government has been called upon to allocate more funds to cater for the fight against HIV/AIDS in order to curtail new infections. The district aids focal person Kabarole district Mpuga Hosea calls upon the government to provide more funds in its budget for HIV/AIDS so as to reduce the spread of the disease in the […]
The Kabarole district HIV/AIDS focal person Mpuga Hosea has called upon the government to add more funds in the AIDS department to reduce on its spread. Mpuga reveals that the AIDS department in Kabarole district is not fully facilitated to carry out sensitization programs especially among the youths. He observes that most people in the […]