Kigali, Rwanda | AFP & THE INDEPENDENT | Rwanda has confirmed four additional coronavirus cases, one of them being a 22-year-old Ugandan national who arrived in Kigali from London on March 15. That brings to five the number positive cases in Rwanda, as the virus hits several East African countries. …
Read More »Minister Moriku irked by poor laboratory services at Arua Referral Hospital
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Primary Health Care Minister, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu has expressed disappointment over the poor services in the laboratory of Arua Regional Referral Hospital. She expressed her displeasure while inspecting the state of art laboratory with officials from the National Laboratory Services and Health Ministry. …
Read More »Overcrowding, high cost of dialysis affecting treatment of kidney patients
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Peter was on a dialysis at the Renal Unit of Kiruddu National Referral hospital during the commemoration of the World Kidney day. March 12 was gazetted as the annual World Kidney day with the aim of creating awareness about kidney diseases, their prevention and provide …
Read More »Dental practitioners warn of oral crisis, recommend dental sealants for children
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At the closure of the Annual Dental Conference and Symposium on Friday, dental practitioners encouraged clinicians and the public to embrace preventive dentistry as a way of dealing with enormous expenses involved in treatment and unnecessary loss of teeth to caries. Dr. Baker Nkulumbi, one …
Read More »‘Super-spreaders’: COVID19 myth or reality?
Paris, France | AFP | Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many. The concept of so-called “super-spreaders” — patients who typically infect far more people than …
Read More »Health ministry cautions Ugandans against spreading rumors on COVID19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has warned Ugandans against circulating wrong information about corona virus on social media. Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General of Health Services, says as the Ministry is struggling to keep Corona virus at bay, they are also battling misinformation spreading on social media …
Read More »COVID-19: Health ministry says no need to cancel school visitation days
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked schools not to cancel school visitation days due to fears that parents might expose learners to COVID-19, a pandemic that has paralysed the globe. This comes after Mugwanya Preparatory School, Kabojja, Uganda Martyrs Girls Boarding Primary School and …
Read More »Archbishop Kaziimba issues guidelines on Coronavirus
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (CoU) Dr Stephen Samuel Kaziimba has issued guidelines to all Churches in the Province in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Kaziimba has urged that all congregations should be sensitized on coronavirus and personal behaviour to avoid …
Read More »DRC COVID-19 case not worrying for Uganda-MOH
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The presence of COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not something that Ugandans need to be worried about, according to the Ministry of Health. The country reported one case of the highly contagious disease in the capital-Kinshasha on Wednesday. The infected person is …
Read More »CORONAVIRUS: Court asked to suspend 2021 Uganda elections
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A concerned citizen wants court to suspend the 2021 Elections general elections over fears of the Coronavirus pandemic. Abbey Mgugu in documents filed before the Civil Division of High Court on Thursday afternoon by his lawyers of Sanywa, Wabwire and Company Advocates, says that …
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