Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Yellow fever vaccination will be included in the routine immunization schedule. According to the Ministry of Health, following the recently declared yellow fever outbreak in the country, government plans to introduce vaccination later this year. The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng says that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is not planning to send teams from Kampala to manage the reported outbreak of Crimean Congo fever in Kagadi district. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever is a widespread disease caused by a tick-borne virus, transmitted to people either by tick bites or through …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has warned Ugandans traveling to China to take precaution after the outbreak of coronavirus. Considering that there are many Ugandans traveling to China and Chinese coming here for various projects, the ministry of Health is taking nothing for granted after the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Medical Stores (NMS) will in July commission a new computer system dubbed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Moses Kamabare, the NMS General Manager said the system whose testing will be completed in February will help health facilities trace their drug and suppliy orders and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Outgoing US Ambassador Deborah Malac has urged the Ministry of Health to equally pay attention to other diseases that continue ravaging communities as they focus on emerging infections, HIV and malaria. She said during the four years she has been in the country, she has …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has dismissed claims that the Health Ministry budget for the 2020/2021 has been slashed. She says claims doing rounds in the media that the health budget for the 2020/2021 financial year budget has been cut to Shs. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans are still not into the habit of carrying out routine health checkups, despite the government’s plan to shift focus from treatment to disease prevention, according to medical experts. The government plan was announced during the inaugural National Health Promotion Conference, at the end …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has directed Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng to appear before the house and explain the status of Computed Tomography-CT scan services at Mulago National Referral Hospital. A CT scan machine is used by medical facilities to capture images that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health Ruth Aceng has warned cultural and religious leaders against sabotaging the mass immunisation exercise against measles and rubella. The exercise startet today across the country and is targeting 18 million children from nine months to 15 years. Speaking at the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has attributed the upsurge in cases of malaria in Uganda to Climate Change patterns characterized by prolonged intermittent rains in various parts of the country. The disease is most prevalent in tropical climates, where the rainfall is sufficient for mosquitoes …
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