Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the Arua Regional Referral Hospital administrators to avail the committee with the asset register for 2021. The directive follows an audit query indicating that an ambulance that was allocated to the hospital during the financial year 2020/2021 was …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local residents and leaders in West Nile are excited following the delivery of the first Computed Tomography (CT) scan to Arua Regional Referral Hospital by the health ministry. CT scan is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to get detailed images of the body …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients at Arua Regional Referral Hospital Mental Health department are struggling to get adequate service due to the severe shortage of medical workers at the unit. Currently, the unit has five nursing staff, three psychiatric clinical officers and one psychiatric doctor who attend to more …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among has donated solar equipment to Arua Regional Referral Hospital in a bid to support the hospital deal with the rampant electricity shortages in the region. The Speaker, who was disheartened to learn that mothers have been dying at the hospital …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua central police station is holding staff of Arua regional referral hospital over purported theft of medical equipment at the facility. Innocent Ezama, attached to the medical equipment department at the facility was picked up by police after a computer monitor and power backup went …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers at Arua Regional Referral Hospital are grappling with the high number of premature births amidst limited space in the neonatal care unit. The unit was designed to accommodate only 16 babies, especially those born before 28 weeks of gestation and those who are …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A nurse attached to Arua Regional Referral Hospital theatre has been arrested over allegations of abuse of office and receiving a bribe. The nurse identified as Paul Wamala, was picked up yesterday after relatives of a 2-year old child who died last week at the …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A two-year-old child has died at Arua Regional Referral Hospital after a nurse demanded a bribe before carrying out an operation. Paul Wamala, a nurse attached to the theatre allegedly solicited a 210,000 Shillings bribe. The incident happened on Saturday, after Aron Nabil, a two-year-old …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Arua has arrested a woman for allegedly stealing a one-day-old baby from Arua Regional Referral Hospital. The suspect is Night Bileru, a resident of Okokoro town council in Maracha district. Jimmy Anguyo, the West Nile Region Child and Family Protection Unit Officer, …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health, Dr Ruth Aceng has warned the staff of Arua Regional Referral Hospital against stealing items from the new Outpatients department (OPD). Dr Aceng issued the warning during the commissioning and handover of the multi-billion modern storage OPD for Arua Regional Referral …
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