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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Health activists are calling for the effectiveness of health management units amidst mishandling of patients especially pregnant mothers by health workers. Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) released results of a study done in some four countries in Africa and Asia. According to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Makerere University Guild President, Julius Kateregga has asked the Education Committee of Parliament to intervene to prevail on the university council and management to halt the implementation of the 15 percent tuition increment policy. He was appearing before the Committee on Monday evening to explain …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Children who suffer from severe malaria, their problems don’t just end when they are discharged from hospital, Dr.Richard Idro, a pediatrician has revealed. He said 25% of the children who have suffered from especially cerebral malaria have developed problems with learning whereas 10% of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Police detectives have pinned four suspects being tried for the murder of two mobile money agents in Zana along Entebbe Road in June this year.  Harriet Nalwaddas and Moreen Nakabuubi were shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles on June 10th 2019. The gunmen made …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former minister for Ethics and Integrity, James Nsaba Buturo has criticized United States Ambassador Deborah Malac for allegedly meddling into Uganda’s internal affairs. The Bufumbira East MP yesterday addressed a Press Conference at Parliament together with Kumi Municipality MP Silas Aogon on the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A retired Commissioner in the Health Ministry, Dr. Francis Runumi says President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni must ensure commencement of the National health insurance scheme. Dr. Runumi, then Commissioner for planning says the delay of the national health insurance has left many Ugandans impoverished by out …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Police have warned Criminal Investigation Commanders – CIDs against picking suspects from cells without going through a Cell’s Guard.  Police’s Chief Political Commissar –CPC Asan Kasingye, says it is very wrong for an OC CID to go to the cells, pick a suspect and take …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A group of eight supporters of Forum For Democratic Change (FDC) party have been arrested from Namboole National Stadium. They were picked up by police deployed at the Stadium to prevent the opposition from holding their planned meeting there at about 2pm on Monday, several hours …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several hospitals face termination from serving clients who have health insurance policies after insurance companies accused them of fraud. This comes after The Uganda Insurers Association (UIA)-commissioned a fraud survey in 2018/19 financial year that found wide-spread cheating with hospitals putting in fictitious claims. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Grace Nakimera’s rain water tank started discharging a mixture of dirt and strange living organisms six months after installation in 2017 in Kifumbira village in Kamwkoya, a Kampala suburb. Nakimera says the problem gets worse whenever water levels in the tank reduces with decline in …