Richard Ocen Kwang, the Chairperson of Standing Committee on Health disclosed that several schools lack emergency first aid kits which significantly provide life skills that helps reduce fatalities and enables the faster treatment of injuries to potentially save lives.
Read more ...According to the District State of Affairs Report, the civil servants include four enrolled nurses, three teachers, five porters, and three laboratory assistants.
Read more ...River Enyau, from where many families have been drawing water has dried up downstream from the point of Water Treatment and Supply and streams in most parts of Arua are equally drying up. In the wake of the developments, supply from the national grid has been rationed; more and more taps are running dry.
Read more ...A patient Rose Nabawanuka was referred to Kalangala Health Center IV, the only facility in Ssese Islands with a medical surgeon, for a caesarian birth. To get there, She needed a canoe boat, but she had become weak after so many hours in labour, without treatment and care. She had also been hit by the direct sun on the lake after sailing about 38 nautical miles to Mwena Landing Site in Bugala, the main Island in Kalangala district. She died on arrival.
Read more ...The World Food Program (WFP) has said it will engage the Turkish company Demirpolat Group which supplied Super Cereal that is suspected to have led to an illness in areas of Amudat and Napak districts.
Read more ...Ssenabulya says that the move to poison all roaming dogs in the municipality follows public outcry over increasing number of stray dogs that are killing people’s animals and those attacking school going children.
Read more ...Annet Dungu, head of maternity at Nabweru Health Centre IIIs, says the numbers could be more because those who seek post abortion care services in private facilities are not captured.
Read more ...Isaac Wanje, the Senior Assistant Town Clerk Arua Hill Division during the site handover to the contractor on Monday explained that the money was a grant under the Discretionary Development Equalization Grant- DDEG with support from World Vision.
Read more ...For nine years, residents at the landing site in Kyesiiga Sub County have been answering nature’s call in the nearby forest reserve and polythene bags.
Read more ...Prof.Maud Kamatenesi the Vice Chancellor at Bishop Stuart University says that there is an urgent need to save the traditional medicinal herbs and trees which she says are being threatened by human activities.
Read more ...Aceng suggests that everyone who goes to access medical services from the facilities must be tested to ascertain whether or not they are suffering from hypertension.
Read more ...The unit was constructed at a cost 118 million shillings. The funds were secured by Dr Matthew Doe and Dr Adam Hiwitt, from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Read more ...Selina Sande, a teen from Kadam village was re-admitted on Friday, just hours after she was discharged from the same hospital. She is one of the 25 people who were hospitalized in Amudat Hospital after eating food ratios distributed by World Food Programme, WFP.
Read more ...In their report read by Innocent Ssekiziyivu, the Mubende Municipal Mayor, the leaders noted that besides the low male involvement in HIV prevention campaign, children are not effectively captured in the AIDs treatment chain, which hinders the aspiration of eliminating the virus by 2030.
Read more ...Ryan Anderson, the Deputy Country Director WFP, says they are investigating what could have gone wrong.
Read more ...According to the Auditor General’s Report for 2017/2018, Moroto hospital lacks key staff and yet more than 1.2 billion shillings meant for recruitment of staff was returned to the treasury.
Read more ...The facility was in 2016 affected by the earthquake that hit areas of Rakai and Kyotera districts a few kilometres from the Uganda-Tanzania boarder.
Read more ...Gordon Toa, the Arua District Production Officer, says their main target is to increase production and consumption of micro-nutrients in primary schools.
Read more ...Members of Parliament approved the guarantee after rejecting a minority report which had been presented by Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze, to block the funding. In support of the Minority report, Butambala County MP Muwanga Kivumbi said that the cost of constructing the hospital is exaggerated.
Read more ...The duo was picked up on a tip off by a vendor in Jinja central market who saw them unpacking drugs from their original boxes and transferring them into a sack.
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