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Iganga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Over 70 professionals in enrolled Nursing, Midwifery, pharmacy, laboratory techniques, records and information management in Iganga District have been commissioned by President Yoweri Museveni. The graduands were awarded Diplomas and Certificates in Clinical Medicine, 3 years after the launching of the Institute. The graduation …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has backed proposals to increase lunch allowances for nurses and build more training schools. He announced that the nursing school at Nyarutuntu in Ntungamo will be taken over by the government. The president was speaking at the National celebrations for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Fort Portal have arrested two nurses found in possession of suspected stolen drugs. Vincent Mujanama, a comprehensive nurse from Ntoroko district and Pidson Bwambale, an enrolled nurse from Kibaale district, were arrested at Kalita Bus Park in Fort Portal with a box full …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response by the country’s new leadership to growing labour arrest. Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who …

THIS WEEK: Nurses threaten to sue company over botched Benghazi deal Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Popular employment sourcing company Middle East Consultants has been put on spot by a group of medical workers that had been promised jobs in Benghazi Libya. The company is said to have promised a …

THIS WEEK: Nurses call off strike as gov’t promises enhancements Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a late evening meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kampala, nurses and midwives under their Uganda Nurses and Midwives union called off a strike they had planned to kick start …

Sofia, Bulgaria | AFP |  Five Bulgarian nurses jailed for eight years in Libya over an HIV epidemic at a children’s hospital welcomed on Saturday media reports accusing Kadhafi-era spies of deliberately infecting the infants. The five nurses, who along with a Palestinian doctor, became known as the “Benghazi six” …

Since she retired from teaching, Sauda Neema, 61, suffers from diabetes, has difficulty sleeping, and often feels general body pain.  She believes it is her fate, as an elderly person, to endure pain. “When you start aging, the first thing you forget about is being fine,” she says, “(But)you can’t …