Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients at Aduku health center IV in Kwania district have no choice but share a general ward with dead bodies due to lack of a mortuary. Aduku health center IV, a Kwania health sub district hospital that serves Kwania and patients from the neighboring Kole, …
Read More »Kwania farmers embrace rosemary growing
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 170 farmers in Kwania district have signed a Memorandum of Understanding- MoU with Special Anointing Oil Company, (SAO-Uganda) a nongovernmental organization implementing the growing of rosemary in Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda. The rosemary plant is a luxuriant garden herb with needle-like leaves …
Read More »Kwania district receives UGX 1.7 Bn to upgrade two health centres
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district has received 1.7 billion Shillings from the World Bank for the refurbishment and upgrade of two health center II’s to HCIII’s, under the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Program for Results- IFTPR. The beneficiary health centres include Akali HCII in the newly created Akali sub-county …
Read More »Kwania district receives UGX 192m for Agricultural Cluster Development Project- ACDP
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district council has approved a supplementary budget of 192 million Shillings for the Agricultural Cluster Development Project- ACDP. The five-year project was initiated in 2018, to improve on-farm productivity, production and volumes of selected agricultural commodities in specific geographical clusters of the country. …
Read More »Flood victims in Kwania district demand for relief
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 residents of Nambieso and Chawente sub county in Kwania district who were displaced by floods are starving. The residents who live along the shores of Lake Kwania have remained homeless and their gardens of crops submerged after the Lake burst its …
Read More »1000 HIV patients in Kwania abandon treatment
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1,012 people living with HIV in Kwania district have abandoned treatment. According to records from the district health department, there are more than 70,000 people on Anti- Retroviral Treatment. Failure to access treatment has been attributed to lack of transport to the health facilities and …
Read More »Union of Hope donates bicycles to support Kwania district health activities
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kwania district has received 100 bicycles to facilitate different health activities in the district especially. The development comes at a time when there is a lockdown in the country as a measure to try and reduce on the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The …
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