Tag Archives: Health

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined the fight against the new Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda, boosting the efforts of the Ministry of Health to stop the contagion. Health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case …

BY KASLINE LAKAREBER KITGUM: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 The Archbishop John Baptist Odama care center (JBOCC) for rehabilitation of children with nodding syndrome is set to be opened on October 2, 2022, the organizers have said. Christopher Obol Arwai, the planning committee for the grand opening, has appealed to the …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 The ministry of health has ruled out any travel restrictions within or outside Uganda as a result of the confirmed outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in Mubende district. The ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr Diana Atwine, in a statement has instead urged …

By Samuel Onen The Irene Gleeson Foundation-IGF is using its charity walk this year to raise at least 40,000 kilograms of assorted food items to support hundreds of families affected by nodding syndrome in the Acholi sub-region. The charity was established by Irene Gleeson, an Australian who decided to pitch …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, September 10, 2022 While attending a tailoring workshop in Luwero district in 2020, Faridah Namukwayo, 22, developed a little cough. For three weeks, Namukwayo took this as a usual cough that occasionally attacked her after a common cold or flu. However, everything changed when she …

 By Samuel Onen Hon. Okin PP , a Member of Parliament representing people of Chua West Constituency has donated an Ambulance which he had promised during the campaigning periods in 2021 and was welcomed by a group of boda boda riders in Kitgum Municipality. Through his personal assistant Mr. Tolit …

BY TIMOTHY EODU NAPAK: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022 Napak district in Karamoja Sub Region has received a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines to be rolled out in the third phase beginning early next month. The officials of the district, which is among those that performed poorly in the previous campaigns, are …

BY GLADYS KASLINE LAKAREBER KITGUM: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022 Kitgum district health department has received 51,602 vaccines for the third round of Covid-19 mass vaccination campaign which is to kick off on June 21, 2022. But unlike the previous campaigns, the focus this time is on children age 12 to …

BY OKELLO JESUS OJARA GULU: WEDNESDAY,Jun 15, 2022 When Knight Akwero, a resident of Patwol ward in Anaka town council, Nwoya district conceived her first baby in 2006, she hoped to deliver at a health facility under the care of a trained midwife. When labor pains hit her during the …