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The interdicted Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, wants court to throw out the evidence and charges brought against him by the State House Health Monitoring Unit on the basis of lack of jurisdiction. This comes after the hospital director was this week charged with embezzlement, fraudulent accounting, abuse of office,…
Nile Treasure Gate Company Limited, a labour export recruitment firm has refuted allegations of conspiring to traffic Judith Nakintu, 38, to Saudi Arabia where she purportedly lost her kidney. This follows the arrest of two directors of the company on Thursday when they appeared at the Criminal Investigations Directorate – CID headquarters in Kibuli, Kampala…
Travellers entering Uganda will no longer have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing as has been the case. The new measures took effect on February 16,2022. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Health, the decision to stop testing was made by Cabinet on Monday during its weekly meeting. This comes after the health…
The government has set February 19 as the date for the burial of the Iteso cultural leader Augustine Osuban Lemukol. Emorimor died on Saturday at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was admitted since January 27. Before he was referred to Mulago, Emorimor was admitted to the Covid-19 unit in Soroti for nine days. On…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has revealed that its indeed true Speaker Jacob Oulanyah is sick. Among informed the House on Tuesday that Oulanyah has been unwell for the last two weeks. Without disclosing what her boss is really suffering from, Among added that he was flown out of country last week to…
The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has been quietly flown to Seattle, United States of America for specialized treatment. Oulanyah was flown out in the wee hours of Thursday, February 3, 2021, after discharge from Mulago National Referral Hospital where he had been admitted. He was flown aboard the Uganda Airlines’ Airbus A330-800 neo, with registration…
The government of Uganda through the ministry of Heath has revealed that its targeting to vaccinate 2.6 million people in the Central region during the mass Covid-19 vaccination exercise. The districts in question are Butambala, Gomba, Kayunga, Mpigi, Buikwe, Mukono and Wakiso. This was revealed by the Director-General of Health Services – Dr. Henry Mwebesa…
Iteso from all walks of life have expressed sadness over the demise of their cultural leader, Augustine Osuban Lemukol Adugala Emorimor. President Yoweri Museveni has also sent out a condolence message. “I join the people of Teso, and the entire country to mourn the death of the Teso cultural leader, His Highness Emorimor Papa Osuban…
A campaign to raise USD 60,000 (approximately Shs 210,001,860), which is needed to fly Ivan Kusasira, 39 years, out of the country for urgent kidney transplant has kicked off. The fundraising campaign that is being conducted by friends, relatives and Good Samaritans, is at flying Kusasira to India such that can have a kidney in…
Former Ethics minister Father Simon Lokodo has died in Geneva, Switzerland where he had gone for an official duty for Uganda human rights commission. The news of his demise has been confirmed by director of information at National Resistance Movement Secretariat Emmanuel Dombo. Later on, Uganda Human rights commission posted on their Twitter account announcing…
