While internship is part of one’s training towards being a licensed doctor, in practice, it is how care is delivered in training hospitals across the country COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | On Friday, May 12th, government issued a newly proposed policy to address what now appears to be a …
Read More »Is European Union delegation exerting undue influence on Ugandan election?
COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | Highly publicized media images of the European Union delegates visiting opposition leaders in Uganda have been shared widely across social media over the last couple of weeks. While these would not have raised a lot of eyebrows at any other time, these …
Read More »‘Face masks are an infection risk, give false sense of security’
To date, the WHO only recommends use of face masks for COVID-19 protection amongst healthy people only if they are caring for someone with a COVID-19 diagnosis or if they are coughing or sneezing themselves. COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | President Museveni on May 19th, extended the national lockdown …
Read More »Uganda can no longer afford to delegate healthcare funding to Development Partners
According to World Bank data, in 2017, Uganda’s per capita healthcare spending was at $38.4, which is little less than a half of the $78.3 average per capita healthcare spending of non-high income Sub-Saharan African countries COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | It has been 108 days and two …
Read More »What the US can learn from Uganda’s COVID-19 experience on crafting a pandemic response
Uganda, as a result of previous experiences in combating epidemics like Ebola and HIV, has gained a global reputation as a leader in public health COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | By now, everyone across the world has been impacted in one way or another by COVID-19. As expected, a …
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