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The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Hon Mathias Mpuuga, has urged the government to increase budget allocations to the health sector. Presiding over at a fundraising for Kyambala Health Centre III in Bukulula sub county, Kalungu district, Mpuuga took note of the challenges dogging the government health facilities. “Most of the new districts lack…
Rwanda’s government has ordered the lifting of a lockdown on the capital Kigali and eight other districts even though Covid cases are still on the rise. The new measures will run from September 23 upto October 13, the government said in a statement after a cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame on Tuesday. Below…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will address the nation today September 22 on COVID-19 and the measures being taken to control it. The address is set for 8pm. He is expected to address the long standing issue of a closed education and religious sector and outline new lock-down measures plus a vaccination plan. https://twitter.com/lindahNabusayi/status/1440228743520284679?s=19
The police have arrested three people accused of selling forged Covid-19 vaccination cards. The arrested include; Shamira Rashid, Wanagoli Abdallah and Kakande Muhamood. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday at the Uganda Media Centre, Dr Warren Namara, the Director of the State House Health Monitoring Unit said they received information that some people were selling fake…
Members of Parliament on the Natural Resources Committee want the National Water and Sewerage Corporation – NWSC to revise its terms of service and start supplying clean piped water in all town councils across the country. This comes after Eng. Silver Mugisha, the managing director NWSC told the legislators Friday that they are only mandated…
The Orthodox Church will officially have two days of mourning Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga, who has been the leader of the church since 1997. The body of Metropolitan Lwanga arrived Sunday after which service was held. He died on 4th September in Athens, Greece where he had gone for missionary work. He has been the second…
The need to be more aware of our physical health status increases each passing day especially now when the Covid-19 pandemic has made many of us inactive due to lost jobs and working from home. Because we are usually home sleeping, sitting or napping in couches, our bodies have become unfit. And following the reopening…
Uganda police department of Criminal Investigations has taken keen interest in investigating and apprehending all Private Health Care Providers who break the law by retaining the dead bodies ,patiants over non-payment of hospital bills. Paul Kato Tumuhimbise, CID deputy director ordered all regional and divisional CID officers to look into cases of Private Health Care…
The Ministry of Health has reacted to a vial/ bottle of the AstraZeneca Vaccine being circulated on WhatsApp to mislead the population about the the shelf life of the vaccines. The Ministry of Health would like to clarify as follows; The AstraZeneca vaccines being administered are valid and have a shelf life of up to…
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has tasked a ten-member select committee comprising ten officials from the National Planning Authority-NPA, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA, security agencies and the ministries of health and tourism to address loopholes in the Covid-19 testing procedures at Entebbe International Airport. Nabbanja who heads the Inter-ministerial committee on Uganda’s Covid-19 response named the…
