Tag Archives: Pearl Natamba

By Pearl Natamba Health minister to launch programme as part of Africa Vaccination Week A little baby boy coughs like he is about to lose his breath and die. His mother grows more desperate and weary as she struggles to comfort the coughing boy. The mother and son are lying …

By Pearl Natamba Deaths from high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes go up in Mulago The woman’s leg had rotted away and, from the foot up to just below the knee, it looked like it had been burnt and left as black as soot. Dr Brian Kiggundu, a specialist in …

By Pearl Natamba How do patients and their attendants avoid infections if they cannot find water to wash their hands at the nation’s top health facility? It is easy, when you are in the casualty ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, to imagine that possibly all disease causing …

By Pearl Natamba Uganda has hailed the U.S government for supporting it in the Innovations for local government social services delivery program to foster local government social services delivery through innovations, at its official launch on Feb.5 at Protea Hotel,Kampala. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), committed US$ …

By Pearl Natamba Victoria University parents in Uganda are worried about raising particular fees to fly their children to Dubai where they will be studying after the University’s relationship with Buckingham, a British University ended recently. The University was forced to make several changes after Buckingham suspended the validation of …

By Miriam Mukama & Pearl Natamba Should government apologise to pupils that fail? By 5:30 am, a typical pupil in a school in Kampala is up for the uphill task to score aggregate four or any single digit result in first division of the Primary Leaving Exams. Parents, teachers, and the …

  By Pearl Natamba Gen. Kayihura, AIP Nuwabwiine,  AIP Kanyesiza cited for various abuses For all the five times I have been assaulted by police, I have never gotten the chance to see who has done so but this time around I managed to,” says Siraje Lubwama, a reporter at …

By Pearl Natamba The ugly training ground for future leaders is not about to change Makerere University Students Guild elections are a big, boisterous, binge that often overflows onto the streets of Kampala city. Friday March 9 was typical. The winner of this year’s race, Ivan Kata, had just been …

By Pearl Natamba Suspension of UNBS boss, Terry Kahuma, exposes how failures at nation’s quality standards body endanger unsuspecting consumers Kigozi Sebaggala, the executive director of the Uganda Manufacturers Association, bought a neatly packaged 50-meter electricity cable from a shop in downtown Nakasero to use at his father’s burial. It …