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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 …

Bioengineers test new tools in Apac and Mayuge | THE INDEPENDENT | Malaria is one of the world’s leading causes of illness and death. According to World health Organisation statistics of April 2021, around 229 million people are infected each year and more than 400,000 of them die. Uganda has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ministry of Health has declared polio a public health emergency after registering two positive cases from Bugolobi and Lubigi sentinel environmental surveillance sites. The new cases come just a year after the World Health Organization-WHO declared Uganda and the entire Africa wild polio free in …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masafu general hospital in Busia district has received an ambulance with a high dependency medical equipment. The sh110 million shillings fully equipped ambulance has medical equipment like Oxygen supplying system, defibrillator for patients with heart problems, patient monitoring system, patients’ bed, first aid kits …