Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have tasked the government to explain the circumstances surrounding the construction of the specialized hospital in Lubowa. This was during the Tuesday sitting in which Parliament paid tribute to the former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah who died in a hospital in Seattle, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has asked health workers who were deployed in COVID-19 treatment units in National and Regional Referral hospitals under the Emergency Response arrangement to leave hospitals even when the government still owes them their pay. Aceng was speaking shortly after …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health says 7.9 million people have been fully vaccinated since last year. The country launched it’s vaccination exercise on March 10th, 2021, exactly one year ago. The exercise initially targeted frontline workers such as medical officers, hospital staff, teachers, aviation workers and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private pharmacies that have been operating within Mulago National referral hospital have been kicked out following a directive by health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng. The minister instructed the National Drug Authority (NDA) to enforce closure of all private facilities operating within public health facilities. According …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As Ugandan authorities plan to start vaccinating children aged 12 to 17 years against Covid-19, experienced medical experts continue to disagree with the move, urging authorities to drop the idea. “I’m completely against vaccinating healthy children against COVID-19,” Dr Renee Hoenderkamp, a qualified medical doctor working …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide program to donate wheelchairs and other assistive devices for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). The drive started in Lira district on Thursday. During the launch, 50 Persons with Disabilities were given wheelchairs, while others received tricycles and crutches among …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has defended the amendment to the Public Health Act saying that it is important to revise the penalties in the law and also consider emerging diseases like COVID-19, Ebola and others. Dr. Aceng appeared before Parliament’s Committee …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly half (48 percent) of the deaths that were registered in the third wave were of persons that were not vaccinated according to the ministry of health. Records from the health ministry show that during the third wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is planning to carry out a national survey to examine the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines. Records from the health ministry show that 15,610,547 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered. Of these 13,188,123 doses have been received as the first jab …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is planning to start vaccinating children aged 12 to 17 against COVID-19. Although the majority of COVID-19 vaccines were initially approved for use in adults aged 18-years and above, an increasing number of vaccines are now also being authorized for use in …
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