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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of people turned up at the Mayor’s Gardens in Entebbe for a free yellow fever vaccination exercise organized by National Medical Stores-NMS. It started on Thursday and will end on Monday. On Saturday, it was a hustle, and survival for the fittest as people …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Medical Stores (NMS) plans to digitally track all patients who will receive drugs and other essential supplies at public health facilities by 2024. The plan is part of the agency’s move to digitize the supply chain to enhance transparency in the procurement, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The re-opening of health training institutions has been characterized by low student turn up. The students were supposed to return to school yesterday after more than two months of being at home following the government’s move to institute a 42-day lockdown due to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to1039 ghost names have been found on the nurses’ payroll. The names were unearthed during payment of lunch allowances for nurses. Uganda has a total of 70,167 nurses and midwives registered by the government’s Nurses and Midwifery Council. According to a letter seen …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private healthcare providers want the government to allow them access medicines and sundries through the public medicines procuring agency, National Medical Stores (NMS). This comes amidst piling complaints against private healthcare providers charging exorbitantly for their services, which came to the limelight when hospitals started …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s ‘middle class’ or those living in urban areas are less likely to seek medical care in government facilities compared to the poor or those in rural areas, according to a survey published by Twaweza East Africa. The survey was aimed at investigating how …

Lagos, Nigeria | Xinhua | An outbreak of Cholera has killed 325 people in 15 states and the capital of Nigeria between January and June of this year, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said in a report on Saturday. In an update of the Cholera outbreak in Nigeria, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Kampala City have asked the government to allocate a special budget for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kampala. Kampala and Wakiso districts have been hit hard by the Covid-19 second wave. Before declaring a 42-day lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni banned …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 health workers in the Elgon and Bukedi sub-regions have contracted Covid-19 due to lack of Personal Protective Equipment- PPEs. Many health facilities in the districts are operating with inadequate or no PPEs, putting the lives of the medics in danger. At …

Can we defeat the virus again? COVER STORY | Ronald Musoke | Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health designate believes despite the current wave of deaths from the second wave, Uganda can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic as it did in the first wave – but it will require determined …