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NAIROBI | Xinhua |  For three years, Seif Amour Rajab could barely open his mouth. Seif was 16 when he fell from a mango tree and fractured his jaw. On Tanzania’s remote Pemba Island, the hospital could do little. The jaw slowly locked shut; eating became a struggle, then speech. …

BEIJING | Xinhua | Half a century ago, a “barefoot doctor” in rural China might have carried little more than a bag of basic medicines, a few syringes and a dozen or so needles. Today, those humble practitioners have given way to a vast and diverse healthcare workforce operating within …

  Uganda says modern outbreak science has changed what investigators can know. Is it time to rethink the 42-day rule?   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | When Uganda’s Ministry of Health announced on July 28, 2026, that the country had declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, something unusual …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Mulago National Referral Hospital is struggling to dismantle a predatory web of extortionists who have infiltrated the facility, posing as medical staff to fleece desperate patients and their families. On a quiet Wednesday evening in the Acute Children’s Emergency Ward, a woman known as “Dr. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors are raising concerns over the growing practice of filming inside health facilities, warning that it not only exposes them to the risk of violence but also subjects them to public condemnation for circumstances beyond their control. Their reaction follows a video that surfaced …

GAZA | Xinhua | At dawn, obstetrician-gynecologist Somaya Shomer walks briskly toward al-Awda field hospital in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Balancing her duties as a physician and a mother of three, she helps women give birth amid war and devastation. “In my previous pregnancies, I enjoyed every stage,” …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than one thousand doctors have applied to fill just 16 positions recently advertised by the Health Service Commission. Speaking to journalists on Monday as shortlisted candidates sat for their aptitude examinations at Makerere University, Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Commission’s Chairperson, revealed that they …

Kampala, Uganda | Apophia Agiresaasi Global Press Journal Uganda |  Days after an emergency cesarean section at a private clinic, Barbara Kwarikunda experienced excruciating pain. “I couldn’t eat,” she says. “I would feel pain whenever someone touched me. My stomach was swollen. I felt like something was bursting in my uterus.” Visits to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has expressed concern over the government’s obstruction of their efforts to facilitate the export of doctors to countries such as the United Kingdom, Poland, and the United States, despite the demand for their services. In an interview with URN, …

OPINION | Badru Walusansa | With all ills bedeviling the Uganda’s health sector, Ugandans cannot afford to add quack medical doctors on the long list. It’s quite disheartening to learn of quack medical doctors flooding the market. The NBS investigative story recently tipped us with a quack medical doctor who had masqueraded as …