Health

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the country, over 92 children have been infected with COVID-19 in Uganda according to the ministry of health. This is about 2 percent of the of cases in the country which are nearing 5,000. The …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district authorities have singled out workplaces as the epicentre of Covid-19 transmission.  The District Health Officer, Dr. Mathias Lugoloobi, says most of the Covid19 positive cases registered in the district are from police, prisons, banks, markets, shops and land-related offices. He attributes the low …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Public health practitioner Prof. Freddie Sengooba has urged the Ministry of Health (MOH) to review and stop the protocol that they are currently using to bury people who succumb to COVID-19. He said they have borrowed the approach of Ebola hemorrhagic fever which presents differently …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Moroto Regional Referral Hospital and Uganda Prison Services authorities have opened an auxiliary treatment centre at Moroto prisons following an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the district. Dr. Ben Watmon, the Director Moroto Regional Referral Hospital, says the decision was reached …

 Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Masaka city has become the epicentre of Covid19 in greater Masaka region with at least 10 confirmed cases. Dr. Nathan Onyach, the Director Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, says five cases came from Masaka central market, four from Masaka District Local Government and one from the …

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda government and the French oil giant Total E&P have reached a major milestone that paves the way for a Final Investment Decision on the production of Uganda’s oil. This came during a meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ebola is spreading in a western province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising fears that the disease could reach neighbouring Republic of Congo and even the capital, Kinshasa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The outbreak in Equateur Province emerged …

Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for an integrated approach to boost the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and diabetes in Africa. Matshidiso Moeti, regional director for WHO in Africa, said that under investments had undermined diagnosis and case management of …

Kalangala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Kalangala district Covid-19 task force has quarantined at least 1000 residents at Nkose Island as the district records it’s second positive case for Coronavirus. The case is of an adult female whose samples were collected in Buvuma Health Center IV on 28th of August but …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging countries to adopt antigen testing for COVID-19, owing to the high prices for the widely used Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, the Deputy Director of the Africa CDC said that …