Health

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The National Medical Stores-NMS has completed the distribution of 28.4 million long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets across the country.  The nets were distributed to 2,051 sub-counties in the 8 months long campaign. In 2019, the Ministry of Health tasked NMS to handle the procurement, storage …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Researchers at the University of Oxford have reported that the risk of the rare blood clotting known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) following COVID-19 infection is around 100 times greater than normal, several times higher than it is after vaccination or following influenza. The study …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Health Organisation has urged the government of Uganda to put in place measures to address adverse side effects of COVID-19 vaccines. The call follows reports that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been found to cause rare blood clots similar to the …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has said he’s currently in a stable condition and on course to full recovery. In a posting on his Facebook Timeline accompanied by two pictures of him appearing to be walking around a hospital Lukwago said he was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Kampala City Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura has said the City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is out of danger in Nairobi, Kenya where he is hospitalised. This dispels rumours making rounds on social media that Lukwago is in critical condition and others pronouncing him …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The second wave of COVID-19 in Uganda has begun, according to scientists. Scientists say the wave begun last week and has so far been characterized by an increase in reported cases of the disease. In the last week of March and the first week of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Butiru Chrisco hospital in Butiru town council in Manafwa district is in trouble for alleged professional negligence.  The family of Suzan Nabifo, an expectant mother who died in May last year during delivery has together with the Centre for Health Human Right and Development-CEHURD sued …

They have changed the game and vaccines will not be enough. Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL, and other members of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Taskforce on Public Health explain why the world now needs global ‘maximum suppression’. At the …

Washington, USA |  XINHUA |  U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday called for a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after rare blood clotting cases emerged in six recipients. In a joint statement Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. …

WHO assures availability of vaccine doses as manufacturer gets stretched Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda’s COVID-19 vaccination exercise has added speed over the last two weeks following President Yoweri Museveni’s getting vaccinated publicly on March 27. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health said April 8 that …