State House Health Monitoring Unit has arrested officials belonging to Al- Saud, a labour exporting company who were found selling fake Covid vaccination cards, Interpol certificates, passports and other travel documents. Dr Warren Namara who heads the Unit said in a statement, that on September 17, they received a tip off about a labour firm…
Aviation passengers at Entebbe International Airport have welcomed an adjustment that now allows all arriving passengers to leave the airport as soon as they are tested for COVID-19. Uganda commenced mandatory COVID-19 testing for all arriving passengers last Wednesday, a process that requires each arriving passenger to pay USD 30 or 110,000 Shillings. But passengers…
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…
Victoria University Kampala, Uganda’s world-class transformational institution of higher learning has embarked on a free covid-19 vaccination exercise to staff, students and the general public as the date for reopening universities and other tertiary institutions edges closer. According to Victoria University, the free vaccination exercise is aimed at hitting the target of 4.9 million people,…
According to our sources, Uganda last week exported about 400 kilograms of medical marijuana to Germany which is actually reported to be the fourth delivery since the government `secretly’ permitted a few companies to carry the business in the among hundreds that yearn for this lucrative opportunity. Medical marijuana uses the marijuana plant or chemicals…
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…
Uganda on Tuesday received a second batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government. Margaret Muhanga, the minister of state for primary health care, received the vaccines at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, 40 km south of the capital Kampala. She hailed the donation as her country is scaling up its vaccination…
