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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leukaemia Patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute are endangered as the facility starts rationing blood, in disregard of transfusion standards recommended for treatment of the cancer. People with leukaemia, need periodic blood transfusions to ensure that the disease does not interfere with the normal production …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The oil and gas industry potentially one of the most hazardous industry sectors will require providers of health services to meet high occupational health and safety standards. Petroleum Authority Executive Director, Dr Ernest Rubondo says while there are opportunities for health service provider to tap …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has released the valuation lists for Makindye, Kawempe, Lubaga and Nakawa divisions regarding payment of property tax. In a statement issued by KCCA, the list contains 20 parishes from Makindye Division, 13 from Lubaga, 19 from Kawempe and 21 from Nakawa …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says no ebola-related death has been registered in West Nile region’s Arua district. She however says Uganda has stepped up vigilance as the ebola virus disease spreads further in Democratic Republic of Congo. Arua district in Uganda shares a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force has started digitalization of criminal records to reduce incidents of case file disappearance and misplacement during and after investigations. Criminal Investigations Director (CID) Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Grace Akullo, explains that Criminal Record Management System (CRMS) will not only reduce …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Betty Amongi has described as unpatriotic, the landlords who are protesting a provision of the law that outlawed the payment of rent in foreign currencies. The provision is embedded in a new law, passed by parliament, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority-URBRA says up to 13.8 million people in Uganda are at risks of old age poverty in Uganda. The authority based its computation on the 2014 census data. The census found that there are 935,000 older persons in Uganda. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Top earners around the world have seen their share of national income rise in the last decade and a half, while everyone else has seen their pay packets shrink, by comparison, a report by economists from the International Labour Organization shows. The ILO assessment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has cautioned district health officers and Political Leaders against declaring Ebola outbreaks in their jurisdictions. The warning follows a scare that came with the death of a Congolese national in Ariwara, an area that shares a common border with …

 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from the Privatization Unit on Thursday failed to prove to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the non-payment of salary-related taxes to a tune of 6.4 billion Shillings. Led by Finance Ministry Under-Secretary Betty Kasimbazi, the officials and others appeared before the committee …