Health

  American Intelligence to release report amid overshadowing rivalry with China Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Seventeen months since the UN World Health Organisation(WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the world is waiting anxiously for a U.S Intelligence community report on the origin of the virus. The report is …

  Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gynecologists have warned that cases of obstetric fistula among women are likely to increase as the country experience rampant teenage pregnancies as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps students out of school. In the Luwero district alone, at least 16,163 teenage pregnancies were reported in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last 30 years. However, nearly half of these people did not know they had hypertension. This is according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of people turned up at the Mayor’s Gardens in Entebbe for a free yellow fever vaccination exercise organized by National Medical Stores-NMS. It started on Thursday and will end on Monday. On Saturday, it was a hustle, and survival for the fittest as people …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists sitting on the COVID-19 National Task Force are starting a study to establish the likely effects of mixing different vaccines amidst a rush to acquire as many vaccines as possible to vaccinate the 22 million targeted. Ugandans So far, in addition to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government plans to extend Covid-19 vaccination centres to schools.  This was revealed  Friday by the Minister of Education and Sports Janet Kataha Museveni as Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released A Level examination results. Last week the minister made a call to all …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health (MOH) has lifted the travel ban on travelers from India. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng told a news conference on Friday that the country has now been placed under category 2, down from category 1 countries, implying that travellers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda on Thursday said it is continuing to decentralize cancer health care in the country as cases are on the increase. The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) in a statement said there is an increasing burden of cancer. “It is estimated that for every 100 new …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The resurgence of polio in Uganda is an indication that children have not been fully vaccinated. Dr Annet Kisakye, the immunization focal person at the World Health Organization Uganda office says that while the Ministry of Health is attributing the outbreak to cross border movement …

HEALTH | DR HENRY DDUNGU | Blood clotting is necessary in our bodies as this stops the blood from uncontrolled flowing after a cut or injury; but it’s when blood clots are created when they’re not needed, that they can become life-threatening. A clot can slow or block normal blood …