Tag Archives: Ministry of Health

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health will screen MPs for the coronavirus disease-COVID-19. The exercise will start tomorrow Thursday, July 15. The decision followed an engagement with officials from the Ministry of Health officials who guided that MPs needed to be tested based on their engagements which …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ugandan health facilities are poorly equipped to offer emergency services according to a study carried out by Makerere University School of Public Health. The survey which centred on finding out the state of emergency medical care services in Uganda was conducted in 111 health facilities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has said that President Yoweri Museveni is yet to assent to the Traditional and Complementary Medicines Act, 2019, a year since it was passed by parliament. The Act was passed on 5th February 2019, and it among others …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A survey conducted by Makerere University School of Public Health has revealed that 70% of ambulances used in Uganda to ferry patients to hospitals lack equipment, medical supplies or even trained personnel. The findings of the survey were published in the scientific and clinical journal, …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district health department has rolled out the mass distribution of drugs to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The diseases are a group of 13 infections caused by parasitic worms, protozoa or bacteria. They strike the world’s poorest people, living in remote and rural …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked district leaders to enact by-laws on the misuse of mosquito nets. According to the health ministry, beneficiaries have used the nets to fence off their gardens, poultry farms while others use them for fishing. Dr Jimmy Opigo, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to limit the number of people returning from abroad to only 300. This comes after more than 900 people who were stranded aboard due to the lockdown imposed due to the outbreak of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has allocated 500 million Shillings to feed children with nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda this financial year. This is according to State Minister for Health Robinah Nabbanja, in response to queries raised by Aruu North MP Lucy Aciro on the plight of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has launched the long awaited COVID-19 mobile laboratories. The mobile labs were supposed to begin work some months back when they were donated but this was all in vain. They couldn’t be launched due to lack of the Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR machine …

🔺  23 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 1000 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 908 🔹 Total of samples tested : 219,627 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed 23 new COVID-19 cases from the 3,316 samples tested bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to …