Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 32 Covid-19 patients have died in the Intensive Care Unit of Jinja Regional Referral Hospital over the last two months. The deaths occurred between April 13, 2021, and June 13th, 2021 during the second wave of COVID-19. The same unit handled 324 patients …
Read More »Jinja hospital to expand intensive care unit
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Intensive Care Unit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital will be expanded to create more space for the increasing number of critically ill patients. A total of 32 COVID-19 patients were admitted to the hospital’s ICU between May 2020 and April 2021. Of these, 26 …
Read More »Jinja hospital ambulance grounded for six months
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja regional referral hospital has been operating for six months without an ambulance after the official vehicle broke down in March. A source attached to the hospital who spoke to us on condition of anonymity says that the ambulance with registration plates UG 3635M …
Read More »Rider hit by AK-47 magazine in Njeru municipality
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-seven- year old Robert Ssenyonga is lying unconscious in the emergency unit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital after being hit on the head by a Local Defense Unit-LDU officer at Njeru stock farm on Tuesday. It is alleged that Ssenyonga, a resident of Kilyowa …
Read More »COVID-19: Patients discharged from Gulu, Jinja hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first COVID-19 positive patients admitted at Gulu and Jinja referral hospitals have been discharged. At Gulu hospital, a 41-year-old Ugandan male truck driver was admitted for treatment on May 1 after he was intercepted from Elegu border post. Dr James Elima, the Director …
Read More »Jinja Hospital registering increase in gunshot wound, stab injuries
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja Hospital is reporting an increase in gunshot and stab injuries. This was revealed by Dr Angella Namala, the hospital Deputy Director during a virtual meeting held by the Makerere University School of Public Health on Wednesday. Namala notes that their causality ward has …
Read More »Jinja Hospital on the spot for failing to enforce COVID-19 guidelines
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Joyce Moriku Kaducu has accused management of Jinja regional referral hospital for failing to enforce the COVID-19 presidential directives. While inspecting the hospital’s isolation centre on Sunday, Kaducu said that security personnel have failed to limit …
Read More »Jinja hospital director disowns postmortem report in RDC Sakwa’s trial
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The director of Jinja Regional Referral hospital Florence Tugumisirize has told journalists that the postmortem report which confirms that late Charles Isanga died as a result of blunt force trauma was not conducted at their mortuary. Isanga, a trader from Lwanda village in Mafubira …
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