Tag Archives: Ministry of Health

🔺  23 new cases 🔺  10 of them from Tororo (quarantined people) 🔺 Total confirmed cases 797 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 699 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty three new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. This brings the number of cases confirmed in Uganda to …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has fallen short of its target in the Oral Cholera Vaccination exercise launched in the wake of a cholera outbreak in Moroto district.    The vaccination started on Monday, targeting to cover 85, 000 people across the district. However, the vaccination …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is planning to carry out another community survey to ascertain where COVID-19 undetected cases in the country might be. This comes after pockets of positive cases were detected in different parts of the country with new community cases reported in parts …

🔺  8 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 763 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 492 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. This brings the number of cases confirmed in Uganda to 763 as of June 20th. The new cases were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has launched the first-ever treatment guidelines for sickle cell disease to standardize the kind of care health workers give patients at specific points of care. Launched at an event to mark the International Sickle Cell day on Friday afternoon, Dr …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Medical Association wants the 27 health workers that have so far tested positive for coronavirus disease to be compensated. Dr Richard Idro, the President of the association told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that they had written to the permanent secretaries …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has today discharged 44 patients who have recovered from the coronavirus (COVID-19). This is the second biggest number of recovered patients being discharged in a day from one facility since Uganda recorded its first case on March 21. On Monday, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With the zeal of hand washing going down months into coronavirus disease transmission in the country, experts have stated that it was inevitable as people were only acting in shock following announcements of a strange killer disease. Hand hygiene alone is touted as having …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has embarked on a process to mend the relationship between Makerere University and the Ministry of Health whose officials are reportedly fighting over COVID-19 cash. The process started with a crisis meeting presided over by the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has launched the distribution exercise of free mosquito nets across the country. The exercise will start next week until the end of the year. So far, only 4.5 million mosquito nets out of the 27 million have been procured. The …