Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has cancelled the contract for Synergy Enterprises Ltd over incompetence. The firm was contracted last year to renovate the National Isolation Centre in Entebbe. The centre was set up in 2009 to handle medical emergencies that require isolation such as …
Read More »Experts report drop in detection of drug resistant TB
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have called for a new survey to determine the current prevalence of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis with information got at hospital level showing low detection of the disease and enrollment into care. Dr Susan Adakun, the head of the TB unit in Mulago National …
Read More »UGANDA: 167 new COVID cases, with 5 deaths
UPDATE 🔺 September 23rd – new COVID-19 cases 167 🔺 Total confirmed cases 6,879. 🔹 Total Deaths: 69 🔸Total Recoveries: 2,961 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today announced 167 new COVID-19 cases in Uganda. This brings the cumulative number of reported cases in the country to 6,879. According to …
Read More »Kampala tops in promoting coronavirus – Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has said Kampala has over 30 percent of the total 6,287 confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that have been reported by the country. According to figures from the health ministry, Kampala followed by Amuru, Buikwe and Moroto account for …
Read More »UGANDA: Record 423 COVID-19 cases as Moroto, Kampala hit
UPDATE 🔺 September 19th – new COVID-19 cases 423 🔺 Total confirmed cases 6,017. 🔹 Total Deaths: 63 🔸Total Recoveries: 2,581 🔹Samples from Points of Entry tested today: 306 🔸Samples from community and contacts: 2,014 🔹Samples tested today: 2,320 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today announced 423 new …
Read More »Private health facilities turning away suspected COVID-19 patients
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some private health facilities are turning away suspected COVID-19 patients, according to health practitioners. According to Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) experts, persons with NCDs have in the recent weeks been sent away from hospitals without receiving care because they present with COVID-19 symptoms of fever …
Read More »Nearly 200 health workers infected with COVID-19 in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s battle against Covid-19 gets more complicated as the deadly virus is harvesting the very people at the forefront of fighting it–the doctors. The 192 doctors already hit by the virus represent 4% of the five thousand Ugandans who have so far tested positive which …
Read More »Inspection of schools underway in Wakiso ahead of planned reopening
Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities at Wakiso district education department have resumed inspection of schools several months since they were closed in preparation for learners to return for studies, the district education officer Fredrick Kiyingi Kinobe has said. He says that district inspectors of schools will by Monday 14th …
Read More »Gov’t asked to integrate HIV, sexual reproductive health services
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society Organizations which deal with Gender-Based Violence [GBV], Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights [SRHR] and HIV have called on the Ministry of Health to integrate these services to enable people to easily access them. Addressing the media today in Kampala, the coalition of …
Read More »KCCA staff to continue undergoing free COVID-19 tests
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA is saved from paying over 272 million shillings to test staff for COVID-19, thanks to free testing that will continue at city hall. With a staff population of about 1,133, the city authority would have to part with at least 272 …
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