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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts at Butabika School of psychiatric clinical officers have asked the government to hire more tutors. Dr. Juliet Nakku, the Executive Director at Butabika Mental Hospital said the school is grossly understaffed with only three tutors and the principal. She said that if adequate staffing is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new clinical case definition for post-COVID-19 condition or ‘long COVID’ in children and adolescents. According to the latest statement by the organization, children and adolescents are more likely to have few or no symptoms or develop mild …

Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | A year since Malawi confirmed its first case of wild poliovirus type 1 in 30 years, more than 33 million children across five southern African countries have been vaccinated against the virus, with over 80 million vaccine doses administered over the past year, said the World Health …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mental health workers have been urged to periodically do a mental health assessment for wellness as they go about their work. State Minister for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo says that owing to the high and growing threat of mental illness, the ministry has started …

Eating 5 eggs per week may help lower your risk Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | A study has found that people who ate five or more eggs weekly had improvements in some risk factors for cardiovascular disease. They had lower blood pressure and blood sugar and less risk for high blood …

Staying married to one person for many years may help Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | People who stayed married to one person for many years in mid-life had a lower risk of developing dementia in old age, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Aging and Health. “Being …

Health ministry says no money for treatment, urges prevention Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | Cancer has become one of the major public health problems in Uganda with 34,008 new cases recorded in 2020 and over 22,000 deaths. Dr Jackson Orem the Executive Director, of Uganda Cancer Institute, revealed this at the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights is a necessity for every young person regardless of their abilities, however, there are challenges to ensuring that this works out in Uganda.  For instance, the Uganda demographic health survey(2016) indicates a 28% unmet family planning need and …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira Regional Referral Hospital has received its first microbiology laboratory and equipment to support the investigation of bacterial infections particularly those that have shown resistance to common antibiotics. The hospital which receives over 1,000 outPatient attendances and 100 admissions on a daily basis has been …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Construction of the third phase of the surgical complex at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital will be undertaken by the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF engineering brigade. Construction of the complex started in 2016 and was supposed to end in September 2020. It however stalled for 2 …