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What can be done about it? Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Health professionals are ethically obliged to attend to someone presenting an emergency, says Dr. Apollo Odeke Epuwatt a Physician at Mulago hospital. But when someone comes to the hospital not presenting an emergency, it is up to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ministry of Health has reaffirmed that it does not need to seek parental consent during national immunization campaigns. This comes after displeasure at the government’s failure to seek consent from parents for the immunization of their children during the ongoing Measles-Rubella vaccination campaign.   In …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Vaccination has helped Uganda to prevent some of the killer childhood diseases but it’s now being resisted by a section of society, says Dr. Sabrina Kitaka.  Dr. Kitaka, a renown Ugandan Pediatric Consultant and Lecturer at Mulago’s School of Medicine says one of the reasons …

Gaborone, Botswana | AFP |  Diamond-rich Botswana is hailed for its stability, but the southern African nation struggles with income inequality, unemployment and a high rate of HIV. Ahead of its general election on October 23, here is some background about the landlocked country of 2.2 million people wedged between …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  A new study carried out by Glasgow University has found former footballers are approximately three-and-a- half times more likely to die from neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. The report, released on Monday was commissioned by England’s Football Association and the Professional Footballers’ Association …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The construction of Karuma hydroelectricity dam is bringing development in Masindi district not just in the energy sector but also in the health sector. Sinohydro Corporation, the Chinese firm constructing Karuma has offered to enhance and elevate the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) Field …

Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Measles – Rubella immunization team in Kalangala on Friday evening survived drowning after their boat collided with another canoe boat on Lake Victoria. The team has been traversing the Islands in Mazinga sub county.    An eye witness Gerald Kalyango in a telephone interview …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Parents of two children from Greenhill Academy are suing the Ministry of Health for illegally vaccinating their children during the on-going mass vaccination campaign that is immunizing children against Polio, Measles and Rubella-MMR. According to a notice to sue that was delivered to both Green …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains an “urgent” global health emergency, The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday at its Emergency Committee meeting. DRC’s latest Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018, has killed 2,144 people, making it the second …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Bank has urged the Ugandan government to pass the Special Needs and Inclusive Education policy which has remained in a draft for close to ten years.   The policy, which was drafted in 2011, makes it mandatory for all schools to have special needs …