Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in the Kiira region are holding a 22-year old laboratory technician who was found in possession of drugs and medical equipment that were stolen from Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. The lab technician identified as Benjamin Feni was found with consignments of HIV and malaria testing …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women in the Busoga region want screening for both cervical cancer and breast cancer extended to lower health facilities. They say that the lack of screening services has left many women to die silently without intervention. Jinja hospital conducts a weekly breast and cervical cancer clinic …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces-UPDF engineering brigade has started renovating the intensive care unit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital-JRRH. One of the engineers told URN on condition of anonymity so as to speak freely on the matter since he is not the official spokesperson of …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiira region is investigating the theft of at least 59 oxygen cylinders from Jinja regional referral hospital. On Tuesday, police picked up several health workers, security guards and drivers, whose names have been withheld since the prime suspects are still at large to …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kiira region police are holding Juma Toola, a clinical officer attached to Jinja Regional Referral hospital for allegedly raping a patient on January 29th, 2022. Toola is locked up at Buwenge central police station. It is alleged that the 20-year-old patient had gone for a …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Razak Waswa, a senior laboratory technologist attached to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital is in trouble for issuing forged COVID-19 test results to a wanted murder suspect, Mathew Kirabo. Waswa is in custody at Jinja Central police station awaiting prosecution. A detective told URN on condition …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patient attendants at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital have lynched a suspected thief. The attendants ganged up against the suspect estimated to be in his late 30’s on Friday night accusing him of stealing items from different wards. They descended on the suspect with sticks, stones and …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja Regional Referral Hospital has disowned Emmanuel Muwema, a health worker who was arrested over the weekend for staging a street bash in violation of the COVID-preventive measures. Muwema was picked up together with two others for holding a street bash along Iganga road in …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 32 Covid-19 patients have died in the Intensive Care Unit of Jinja Regional Referral Hospital over the last two months. The deaths occurred between April 13, 2021, and June 13th, 2021 during the second wave of COVID-19. The same unit handled 324 patients …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Intensive Care Unit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital will be expanded to create more space for the increasing number of critically ill patients. A total of 32 COVID-19 patients were admitted to the hospital’s ICU between May 2020 and April 2021. Of these, 26 …
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