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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Patients with severe forms of COVID-19 have higher chances of surviving if given fixed doses of hydrocortisone. This is according to findings of a new study carried out by the Imperial College of London. The findings which were released today and published in the journal …

Sydney, Australia | XINHUA | A potent compound extracted from the venom of honeybees can quickly destroy 100 percent of aggressive breast cancer cells with minimal harm to normal cells, Australian researchers have revealed. Lead researcher, Dr Ciara Duffy from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has launched a new entity, the Malaria Free Uganda Fund to boost the fight against malaria infections and death. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists in Kampala today that the idea of having this new board was …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The decision by Ministry of Health to start charging for COVID-19 tests will hit truck drivers hard, their leaders has said. The leadership of the Regional Lorry Drivers and Transporters Association-RLDTA has called the decision ‘inhumane’, and said it is likely to cause more harm than …

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The National Council for Higher Education has approving admissions of medicine and dentistry students at Uganda Christian University-UCU. The University had been directed to halt admissions in the two courses for lack of appropriate infrastructure and equipment early this year following the third joint inspection …

Kampala, Uganda |  FLAVIA NASSAKA & JUDITH KUKUNDA | The Ministry of Health today starts admitting positive COVID-19 patients at a new treatment facility at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole on the outskirts of the city.  Col. Edith Nakalema, who heads the statehouse anti-corruption unit confirmed to journalists last evening that she had …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council has commissioned the newly constructed modern Maternity block at Pandwong Health Center III in Pandwong Division. The facility constructed at a tune of 513 Million Shillings was handed over by the contractor, 3MS Investment Ltd on Tuesday. The health facility also comprises …

Nakaseke, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Biddabugya Health Center III in Nakaseke District has resumed admitting patients fifteen years after it had scaled down operations.   The facility was constructed in 1988 to offer health services to residents of Kasangombe sub-county and other neighboring sub-counties. However, in 2005, the facility scaled down …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday cautioned Kenya against relaxing measures aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the decline in the number of total confirmed symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the last three weeks is …

Kwania, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district has registered its maiden Covid19 positive case. The positive case is a 40-year-old male resident of Agolowelo Village Amorigoga parish in Abongomola Sub County and an employee of Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA.    The patient was intercepted at Dokolo-Kwania border when his results …