By Joan Akello Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is in the process of commissioning its medical compressed air plant and a vacuum extraction pump. This comes at the time Mulago National Referral is building an oxygen plant. Dr. Omagino. O.O John, UHI Director, signed a 2.4 Million Shillings cheque instructing British …
Read More »
By Melina Platas Izama Making sense of the contradictions and bipolar reality of Uganda’s health indices Since Uganda hit 50 recently, it seems as good a time as any to check its vitals. There is the heartbeat of the economy and the temperature of the masses, the pressure of the …
Read More »
By Sarah Namulondo Movember a global movement to create awareness on prostate cancer will today launch the free prostate cancer testing at Victoria University starting on Wednesday. Movember Uganda 2012 is focusing on “Early Presentation for Prostate Cancer Screening” with major focus on Men over 40 years who are more …
Read More »
By Sarah Namulondo The ministry of health has set up a temporary virus research institute in Ibanda to reduce the delays in receiving Marburg results. Addressing a press conference today at media centre, the Minister of Health Christine Ondoa said that this was done to reduce the time it takes …
Read More »
By Sarah Namulondo Addressing a press conference yesterday at media centre Dr. Acheng Jane Ruth, the director general health services made the statement after journalists demanded for the names and pictures of patients at Mulago hospital to illustrate how bad the situation was. In frustration Acheng said that if she …
Read More »
By Aloysious Kasoma The Ministry of Health has this Friday warned the general public of an outbreak of a deadly Marburg virus in Kitumba sub-county, Kabale district in western Uganda. Health experts have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg after samples from two relatives taken to the Uganda Virus …
Read More »
By Sarah Namulondo An initiative to involve Ugandans in monitoring health programs within their communities is paying off according to the latest review done by the Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA). Christine Munduru, the health and rights program officer for Open Society Initiative for East Africa has particularly …
Read More »
By Sarah Namulondo Two former bosses of Mulago Hospital explain why 50 years later, Uganda cannot offer colonial standards health care Lawrence Kaggwa was possibly 15-years old when Uganda got her independence from British colonial rule in 1962. He recalls admiring the medical workers in his village in Masaka; the …
Read More »
By Morris D C Komakech Failures are caused by structural deficiencies not individual lifestyle choices The article, “Irresponsible lifestyles strain health sector” (The Independent Aug.10) by Dan Kimosho needs an urgent rebuttal. Kimosho argues fervently from a rather skewed perspective that Ugandans who get ill or those who find themselves …
Read More »
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In 2009 President Museveni set up the Medicines and Health Services Delivery Monitoring Unit to rid the health sector of corruption. The unit has caused arrests of many health officials for alleged corruption. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to the unit Director Dr Diana Atwine …
Read More »
The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price