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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda is likely to lose over 6.5 billion shillings in wasted vaccines due to the COVID-19 lockdown. According to the health ministry, most wastage is recorded with vaccines that have multiple doses such as Measles/Rubella or the BCG vaccine for whooping cough normally given at …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The family of the-80-year-old female who reportedly succumbed to COVID-19 on Friday 25 has denied the health ministry access to carry out contact tracing. The 80-year-old was admitted to Platinum hospital for seven days before her condition deteriorated. Then she was sent to Mengo hospital …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Pece Prison in East Division in Gulu City has been placed under the 14 days’ mandatory quarantine after one of the inmates tested positive for COVID-19.  The inmate, whose identity has been withheld, was transferred to Pece Prisons from Amuru district on June 30th, 2020. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Members of Parliament have raised concern over the manner, in which the first Ugandan COVID-19 was buried. Yunis Chimatala, succumbed to Covid19 at Joy Hospice center in Mbale City around 2am on Wednesday last week.    She was first admitted at Wasungui health center II on …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | A research project aimed at lowering the incidence of liver cancer among patients with hepatitis B was launched in China on Tuesday, which was World Hepatitis Day. The project, sponsored by the Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control, will observe and study the five-year …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association want government to recruit more health workers for regional referral hospitals. According to the organisation, an assessment recently carried out revealed that many regional referral hospitals do not have enough enough doctors.The worst staffed hospitals according to the association …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Heart institute failed to utilize Shillings 420million for the recruitment of specialist doctors. The matter came to light when Dr. John Omagino, the Director of Institute appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The committee chair and Budadiri West MP, Nathan Nandala Mafabi …

Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Mbale regional blood bank in Mbale has run out of blood again for the second time since the COVID-19 lockdown started in March this year. The regional blood bank suffered the first blood shortage few weeks after the closure of schools and suspension of public …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has registered a second Coronavirus (COVID-19) death, according to the ministry of health. The second case is an 80-year-old female, a resident of Mengo, Kisenyi III in Kampala. She was admitted to Platinum hospital on Friday July 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm after …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A vaginal ring that has been undergoing trials has been given approval by the European Medicines Agency to be used as an HIV prevention method among women who have tested negative. The flexible vaginal ring which contains Dapivirine, an antiretroviral drug,  is inserted in the …