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City businessman Rajiv Ruparelia and wife Naiya have given birth to a bouncing baby girl. The new life is the first child for Rajiv and Naiya. To celebrate the achievement of getting a second grandchild, Uganda’s richest man Dr Sudhir Ruparelia decided to host his fellow rich friends to a dinner in a magnificent restaurant…
The Speaker of parliament, Anita Among has directed the Ministers for Health and finance to up the construction of Lubowa specialized hospital and procurement of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and report to house in two months. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that can help reveal the metabolic or…
The Minister of Health, Hon. Jane Ruth Aceng has revealed that the immediate cause of death of the former Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, was multiple organ failure. “The heart, lungs, liver and kidney all failed. The liver started failing while he was in Uganda and the lungs had started collecting fluids,” she said. The Minister…
Government has revised the burial budget for the send-off of the late former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah to shs 1.2 billion after an alarming Shs2.5 billion allocation caused a public outcry over unnecessary expenses and projected cash bonanza. With the body of the late Jacob Oulanyah jetting into the country today, the breakdown of his burial…
Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has asked health workers who were deployed in COVID-19 treatment units in National and Regional Referral hospitals under the Emergency Response arrangement to leave hospitals even when the government still owes them their pay. Aceng was speaking shortly after members of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) staged a protest…
Kampala, Uganda: Patients with severe COVID-19 referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital are being forced to share wards with other critically ill patients following the closure of the COVID-19 treatment unit. A doctor who spoke to URN on condition of anonymity, says that they received a severe COVID-19 case on Monday night and was admitted…
As the nation is still struggling to comprehend the demise of the former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah who passed on last week in Seattle, United States of America where he was hospitalised, the Parliamentary Pension’s Amendment (No.2) Act of 2011 stipulates that the State looks after the deceased’s family. Oulanyah legally divorced his second wife Winnie…
President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to release sh3.024 billion to facilitate research on the use of Ivermectin prophylaxis in the treatment of COVID-19 infection. Last year, the President tasked the Uganda People’s Defense Forces – UPDF medical team to research on the use Ivermectin prophylaxis in the…
Temperature screening at public place entrances in Rwanda is no longer required, and is not considered as one of the ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said Thursday. The directive came as infection rate continues to fall. “The ministry directs heads of public and private institutions and organizers of public…
The father of the deceased Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, Nathan Okori has said his son did not die of natural causes and that he was poisoned. He has however quickly asked that his death is not politicised. Okori was quoted telling a handful of mourners at their ancestral home in Omoro District saying Oulanyah’s death is…
