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CSOs want funding for recruitment of additional health workers

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 143 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are calling for funding to support the recruitment of health workers to enforce interventions of COVID-19. In the letter to donors who include GAVI the vaccines alliance, Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global Financing Facility, …

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Speaker commends frontline health workers in coronavirus fight

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has this afternoon commended the health workers who are at the frontline in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19. While delivering her communication to MPs in the plenary session, Kadaga commended the health workers on the progress so far made …

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Health workers in Mbarara attending to COVID-19 suspects to be isolated

Mbarara, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Health workers attending to Coronavirus (COVID -19) suspect cases at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital are to be Isolated.  Dr. Celestine Barigye, the Mbarara regional referral hospital Director says medics who  attend to suspected Coronavirus cases will be stopped from going back to their homes because …

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Gov’t to award health workers to boost quality health care

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is to award hard working health workers to motivate other personnel countrywide to provide quality healthcare. The Heroes in Health awards were launched on Thursday by Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng. Aceng said that the awards are also meant …

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Health workers abandon ebola screening centers over pay

Buliisa, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 100 health workers deployed to manage various Ebola screening centers in Bullisa district have abandoned their duty stations citing none payment. The affected include members of Village Health teams-VHTs and Health workers attached to various health facilities in the district.   The affected workers …

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Health workers clueless in providing adolescent specific care

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers are not using the guidelines offered by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization to dispense care to adolescents. This is according to preliminary findings of a study on the status of youth friendly services in the country. The Ministry …

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