Tag Archives: Ministry of Health

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district health department has rolled out the mass distribution of drugs to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The diseases are a group of 13 infections caused by parasitic worms, protozoa or bacteria. They strike the world’s poorest people, living in remote and rural …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked district leaders to enact by-laws on the misuse of mosquito nets. According to the health ministry, beneficiaries have used the nets to fence off their gardens, poultry farms while others use them for fishing. Dr Jimmy Opigo, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to limit the number of people returning from abroad to only 300. This comes after more than 900 people who were stranded aboard due to the lockdown imposed due to the outbreak of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has allocated 500 million Shillings to feed children with nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda this financial year. This is according to State Minister for Health Robinah Nabbanja, in response to queries raised by Aruu North MP Lucy Aciro on the plight of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has launched the long awaited COVID-19 mobile laboratories. The mobile labs were supposed to begin work some months back when they were donated but this was all in vain. They couldn’t be launched due to lack of the Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR machine …

🔺  23 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 1000 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 908 🔹 Total of samples tested : 219,627 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed 23 new COVID-19 cases from the 3,316 samples tested bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Ugandans who have just returned into the country from overseas are protesting spending more than 14 days in institutional quarantine. A total of 804 Ugandans and legal residents have returned from Afghanistan, India, Southern Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom among …

  Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health service delivery in Kabale and Rukiga districts is being hindered by the lack of ambulances. Rukiga district does not have a government ambulance to rush patients with emergency cases to health facilities. The only double cabin pick-up is grounded at Kamwezi health …

🔺  14 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 953 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 892 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed 14 new COVID-19 cases in the country bringing the total confirmed cases to 953. Of the 14 confirmed cases, 11 of them are truck …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bugoye health centre III in Kasese district is struggling with an acute shortage of anti-retroviral supplies. Jimmy Muzigiti, the health assistant in-charge of public health at the facility attributes the shortage of the drugs to the high number of new patients that have opted …