The deceased include 30-year-old woman identified as Mukankusi and her two children aged 2 and 5 years respectively all residents of Wankusa village in Kakindo Sub county Kakumiro district. The accident occurred at Buseera village in the same sub county.
Read more ...The disease which infects the lungs and is transmitted through the air remains one of the top 10 causes of worldwide deaths, and is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, above HIV/AIDS. This is despite the fact that global efforts have averted an estimated 54 million TB deaths since 2000.
Read more ...Addressing parliament on Tuesday, the Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, said the hospital needs more money than was previously allocated.
Read more ...The vast majority of these deaths happen in the first five years of life, and most could have been prevented by simple solutions like medicines, clean water, electricity, vaccines and more health facilities and doctors. Newborn babies account for half of the deaths.
Read more ...Charles Ssenjego, the head teacher Malombe Primary School says about 73 pupils reported on the first day of the third term and struggled to use the only remaining latrine with their teachers.
Read more ...Following the confirmation of deaths in the area, the Ministry of Health has procured five walk-through scanners to detect peoples temperatures. The scanners will be placed at border crossings, according to Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Senior Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health.
Read more ...Five years ago, the Trust Funds for Victims engaged the school of Psychology at Makerere University and the Center for Victims of Torture, to build the capacity of psycho-social counselors to respond and treat victims of the conflict experiencing recurrent post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read more ...After cutting the girls , Surgeons are often given different gifts including money from the parents or from the mutilated girls themselves. This monetary benefit is reported to be one of the reasons why the outlawed vice is thriving.
Read more ...Locals say that the porous border is aiding the continuation of FGM, a practice which was outlawed in Uganda, but remains popular among the Pokot and Kalenjin of Kenya, who share a common culture and customs with the Pokot community in Amudat.
Read more ...They argue that the open disposal attracts dogs and vultures which frequent the centre to collect and eat the placenta and that a foul stench from rotting placenta now fills the air across the neighborhood.
Read more ...Today the World Health Organization WHO said that there were 137 confirmed and probable cases and 92 deaths in the latest outbreak in the east of the country. The UN Childrens Fund-UNICEF also announced that everything is being done to ensure that the disease in controlled in Butembo at this early stage.
Read more ...A total of 61 students have been admitted to pioneer the new school. They include six international students from Eritrea, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan and Nigeria. The students use Mengo Hospital as a teaching hospital.
Read more ...The practice which was outlawed close to 10 years ago, persists among the Tepeth in Moroto, the Pokot in Amudat and in parts of Nakapiripirit district. A survey conducted by the UN Agency for children- UNICEF indicates that FGM prevalence remains high in Amudat district.
Read more ...Since its takeover, the hospital has visibly undergone a through a face lift. The once dilapidated buildings consumed by greenery to nearly abandoned houses have been renovated in a process that involved repainting, fixing cracked and falling walls as well as re-roofing leaking areas.
Read more ...According to environmentalists, the qualities that make plastic an adaptable and durable product to use also make it an environmental nightmare. This is mainly because plastics do not biodegrade but they break down into smaller and smaller pieces that wreak havoc on wildlife and the ecosystem.
Read more ...The treatment period has been reduced from 20 months to nine months
Read more ...Records from the Ministry of Health indicate that 253 Ugandans per 100,000 are believed to be infected with TB. However, only half of this number has been diagnosed.
Read more ...The call is being made following research findings from the Guttmacher Institute that show more than 27,000 unsafe abortions were carried out by adolescents aged 15-19 years
Read more ...The findings show that a total of 182 arrests were carried out in Kampala and Kitgum over the study period from 2011 to 2015. 38 cases were sanctioned by the office of the Director of Public Prosecution and only nine cases were prosecuted during this time.
Read more ...Godfrey Kabogoza, the Migyera town council LC 3 Chairperson, says their hands are tied, arguing that there is no way they can block the minors from joining the trade without addressing reasons why they leave their homes.
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