The Leading UK charity organisation, Muntada Aid, announces a team of British midwives and researchers landed in the Country for their latest deployment, providing midwifery training in partnership with the…
Category: Health
Victory for Health: Contractor Relents, Hands Over Intern Doctors’ Hostel at Kabale Hospital
Musuuza Building Contractors Limited, the company contracted by the Ugandan government, has finally handed over the completed intern doctors’ hostel to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital authorities. The hostel is now…
PRESIDENT MUSEVENI CHALLENGES LOCAL SCIENTISTS TO FAST-TRACK HIV/AIDS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AS HE COMMISSIONS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT CENTER
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has challenged local scientists to fast- track the development of the HIV/AIDS vaccine. “It’s good that you are waking up, and we must get the vaccine,”…
Go slow on birth control for 15-year-old girls; Tayebwa tells Gov’t
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Thomas Tayebwa, has stopped a new plan crafted by Health ministry officials to allow young girls from the age of 15 to use condoms,…
Am going to advocate for you; Deputy Speaker Tayebwa roots for deaf education
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Thomas Tayebwa has highlighted the plight of the deaf community and tasked the government to provide social protection, economic empowerment and education programmes that…
Kitatta’s efforts yield fruits as Kagganda HC II in Lwengo starts recieveing drugs and medical supplies from National Medical Stores
The residents of Kkingo Sub-county in Lwengo District are having a smile on their face as their Kaggada Health Centre II was uploaded in the system of Ministry of Health…
TENSION; As Contractor Deploys Security Guards at Completed Hostel at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital after Refusing to Hand it over
BY ARINDA NSHEKA In a puzzling development, Musuuza Building Contractors Limited, the construction company responsible for the intern doctors’ hostel at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital (KRRH), has stationed private security…
UGANDA RED CROSS SOCIETY, RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LAUNCH SANITARY PAD MANUFACTURING PLANT TO PRODUCE REUSABLE SANITARY PADS, TRAIN & UPSKILL GIRLS & WOMEN IN MUKONO
The plant launched yesterday in Namakwa, Mukono District, will significantly the improve lives of 50,000 girls and women, the through production of reusable sanitary ps, and create employment opportunities for…
LGBTQ PERSONS IN UGANDA PROTEST AGAINST THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL 2023
In show of solidarity and determination, rural members of the LGBTQ community and allies took to the streets yesterday to demand the halting of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 that’s was…
Presidential pledge to upgrade Katoogo Health Centre III to IV in Mukono District has been fulfilled
Residents of different parishes in Mukono District have applauded the NRM Government for the ongoing efforts in upgrading Katoogo Health Centre III to a well-facilitated Health Centre IV. The efforts…