Fort-portal HIV patients asked to form village groups for easy access to services.
By Agustinn Kabooha Cyril Kamusiime the HIV/Aids Focal person at Fort portal Regional Referral Hospital has advised HIV/Aids patients of Fort-portal to form groups in their respective villages in order to easily access their medicine Kamusiime said that forming village groups shall help to reduce congestion in hospitals, save transport, reduces stigma in patients […]
Continue ReadingParliament of Uganda Tasks Ministry of Health To Explain 35 billion for Covid 19 marks.
Legislators have turned the heat on the health ministry, tasking its officials to account for Shs 35 billion supplementary funding that was supposed to aid in the fight against the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic. In a plenary session chaired by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga on Tuesday, the lawmakers claimed that there was a selective distribution of facemasks […]
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Kenya will participate in final clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. It will be the second African country to be involved in the trials that were suspended on Wednesday after a participant had a suspected adverse reaction in the UK. At least 400 healthcare workers will take part […]
Continue ReadingMinistry of Health accepts issuing wrong Coronavirus results to 679 Ugandans
Ministry of Health has admitted to mismanagement of COVID-19 test results being released by laboratories. The ministry says about 679 people were given wrong COVID-19 results. Some people were both positive and negative. Some people claim to have received two different result slips, one indicating positive and the other negative. Others claim to have taken […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights defenders concerned about charge of COVID-19 tests
Human rights defenders have expressed concern about a charge imposed by government on individuals seeking to test for COVID 19. This comes a day after government announced that it was to start charging private individuals and organisations staff seeking to be tested for COVID-19 effective today. The health ministry said people in need of knowing […]
Continue ReadingWHO Set to Declare Africa Free From Polio
The World Health Organization (WHO) will today declare Africa free from wild polio, four years after the last cases appeared in northeastern Nigeria. The WHO said in a statement said up to 1.8 million children have been saved from the crippling life-long paralysis, because of the relentless efforts by governments, donors, frontline health workers and […]
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