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Nile Breweries Ltd on Nov.04, launched a simultaneous COVID-19 vaccination drive to support the Ministry of Health by setting up walk-in vaccination centres at 20 of its distribution sites across the country. The launch was flagged off at Kasanga in Kampala at a ceremony presided by the Minister of State for Health (Primary Healthcare), Margaret…
Passengers arriving at Entebbe International Airport will no longer be required to wait for their Covid-19 results. The Minister for Health, Hon Ruth Aceng said that effective 05 November 2021, passengers will be allowed to proceed and self-isolate at home until they get their results. Aceng said the move will minimize inconveniences resulting from delays…
The Ministry of Health has set a target of 1.1 million people to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in the Teso and Lango sub region. The vaccination campaign dubbed “operation last lap” targets people aged 18 years and above. Dr Alfred Driwale, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Vaccines and Immunization at the Ministry of Health…
Parliament is currently engaged in talks with different stakeholders to see that that the Kawempe North MP, Hon. Muhammad Ssegirinya who is currently in a prison hospital, receives treatment in a better medical facility. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Anita Among who chaired the House on Thursday, 28 October 2021 said that Ssegirinya who…
A senior official of the African Union Commission on Tuesday urged European Union member countries against a policy of not accepting COVID-19 vaccine certificates from the continent. Speaking at the opening of a meeting of foreign affairs ministers of the European Union and the African Union in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, the vice-chairperson…
The Uganda Prisons Services has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across the country. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson said that only 2% of the already vaccinated prisoners have received the second dose. Baine explained that their target is to vaccinate at least 50 percent of…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has launched the commencement of $30 per person mandatory testing by government for COVID-19 for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Since May, private laboratories have been testing un-vaccinated passengers from ten high risk countries such as Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates among others. However,…
Pregnant women are increasingly reporting a rare form of heart complication during the last months of pregnancy and up to five months after pregnancy. Scientifically named peripartum cardiomyopathy, doctors at Mulago National Referral Hospital and the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) have said the condition is now affecting seventeen in every hundred women reporting for care.…
While women are encouraged to always check their breasts to look out for any possible swellings five to ten days every after their monthly periods, experts at the Uganda Cancer Institute say men should do the same at any time during the month. Dr. Noleb Mugisha, an oncologist who heads screening services says many men…
Police in Kiira region on Thursday arrested the Jinja regional referral hospital internal pharmacist, Ambrose Kamugisha, alongside six others for allegedly selling government labelled supplies. The suspects are being detained at Nalufenya police station awaiting prosecution. The suspects were arrested following a tipoff from a passenger, who alerted Uganda Revenue Authority-URA law enforcement personnel after…
