Both numbers may predict heart disease | THE INDEPENDENT | According to new research, both high systolic and high diastolic blood pressure can lead to heart attack and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide. In Uganda, one in three adults suffers from high blood …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 103 properties belonging to Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA could have been mysteriously sold. Key among the properties is M.162 Ntinda Industrial area, occupied by Imperial estates limited, Plot 6 Commercial Road Ntinda occupied by Nalis Byarugaba, Plot 11 Summit View Road occupied …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | People with Disabilities (PWDs) especially those with visual, speech and hearing impairments find challenges choosing the best contraceptives and other reproductive health services they need. This was revealed by health workers attending the annual reproductive, Maternal, Newborn health symposium today. The health workers say that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers conducting repairs on victims of obstetric fistula are concerned by the lack of spouse support for patients, a tendency that frustrates effective case management. Obstetric fistula is a health condition that leaves a hole between the birth canal and the bladder or …
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Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Tunisia’s Esperance were declared winners of the African Champions League by CAF on Wednesday following a long legal battle after Wydad Casablanca stormed off in protest during the second leg of the final in May. Wydad “is considered to have lost the game”, African football’s governing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four medical workers from Amolatar district are under investigation for allegedly stealing a doppler machine. The machine is used to monitor the heartbeat of unborn babies in order to provide an audible simulation of the heartbeat and estimate the blood flow through blood vessels of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has resolved to stop subleasing markets such that they can be controlled by the authority. The resolution was passed in the council meeting chaired by the City Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago on Wednesday. The motion to stop issuance of subleases was …
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Hopefully it will reactivate the stalled process to get a salary review commission which has been long overdue COMMENT | Cissy Kagaba | We are pleased with the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the 2016 ruling of the Constitutional Court decision that impugned Section 5 of the Parliament …
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Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders have made “strong pledges of commitment” to bring about a transition to a civilian-led rule, a US official said Wednesday. US Undersecretary for Political Affairs David Hale was speaking after meeting with Sudan’s military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, protest leaders …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has faulted the Ministry of Energy for spending more than 10 billion Shillings to clear domestic arrears, without authorization. Questions were specifically raised on the expenditure of 10.54 billion Shillings on domestic arrears contrary to 2.4 billion Shillings that was …
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