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✅ Overall winner – IMC Kireka ✅ Innovation Award – IHK ✅ Reward your owner -IMC Mukono ✅ Team of Year – Kololo ✅ Best facility – Entebbe road ✅ Choice Award – Park Royal Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Medical Centre (IMC) on Saturday inaugurated its first …

Why our hospitals lack ambulances as public officials indulge themselves in fancy four-wheel drive vehicles THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week someone close to me had a medical emergency in Mubende referral hospital. A child died inside the womb of his fiancé. The only ambulance the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Considering the fact that people still experience high out of pocket expenditure on healthcare to the highs of 40%, activists argue that user fees in hospitals should be returned to better health service delivery and curb corruption that’s rampant in government hospitals under the …

Bukomansimbi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Motor Care Uganda limited has withdrawn an ambulance it supplied to Bukomansimbi district following uproar by the local authorities that it doesn’t meet the contract specifications. In March this year, Bukomansimbi district with support from Korean Foundation for International Healthcare-KOFIH contracted Motor Care Uganda limited …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists seeking to conduct research into healthcare can apply to get funding for their studies. The Makerere University Deputy Vice-Chancellor in- charge of Finance and Administration Dr. William Bazeyo says that a call for researchers to submit proposals was placed last week after part of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda can leverage its Ebola emergency preparedness activities to help the country meet its other healthcare targets like increased immunization coverage, improved maternal health and HIV prevention, according to a health policy expert. Dr. Solome Okware, the Technical Advisor Policy at the Infectious Diseases Institute …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said Sunday that excellent basic healthcare that would prevent easily treatable but deadly conditions was achievable even in Africa’s poorest nations. “The good news about health is that by spending modest amounts on the prioritised areas, you can get phenomenal benefits,” …

THE LAST WORD: Why expecting a Ugandan peasant to have the same quality of healthcare as an American is madness THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week, I attended the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)’s monthly State of the Nation seminar on public spending and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In an effort to expand its clinic network and footprint in the country, International Medical Centre (IMC) on Friday launched a new branch in Wandegeya as a way of responding to the overwhelming community demands for a quality healthcare service and bridge the service provision …

    ?: Do you still want to love me, for better or for worse? ?: I DO. An 85-yr-old man in Xi'an, China's Shaanxi Province, was captured on camera giving his wife a leg massage. pic.twitter.com/MCJVBGKrVG — People's Daily, China (@PDChina) January 10, 2019 Beijing, China | AFP | …