Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale district health authorities are considering recalling all junior health workers on leave to boost manpower in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Reports from Kabale district health department show that the operations of the district COVID-19 taskforce are being hampered by inadequate manpower. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has classified wages and salaries of civil servants, Ministry of Health spending and security as priority spending in the foreseeable future until the country can contain the COVID-19 scourge. Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi said in a statement to all accounting …
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Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The suspicion of garage operations across the country has hit hard mechanics and other people operating in Mbale garage. The garage hosts thousands of people mechanics, food vendors and auto mobile spare parts dealers among others. URN visited the garage on Wednesday and found some …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is going to release 200 people who have been undergoing institutional quarantine this week. These are part of the 1,015 people that have been under institutional quarantine at centres located in Kampala and Wakiso districts. According to the health ministry, …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono Resident District Commissioner, Fred Bamwiine has declined to approve movement of a sound truck hired by the Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze to sensitise residents on the corona virus pandemic. Nambooze hired a sound truck to reportedly help translate the president’s directive …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University Hospital has received a major face lift despite the insatiable demands at the hospital. Dr. Josaphat K. Byamugisha, the Director of the newly refurbished hospital, says the renovation is a sigh of relief. Dr. Byamugisha, who is also a professor of Gynecology …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The US Embassy in Uganda in it’s latest health alert has told its citizens that a plane set to evacuate them from Uganda departs on Friday, 3rd April, 2020. The embassy resolved to exit their willing citizens who are able to pay for their …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal Magistrate court has granted bail to the Bunyangabu LCV Chairperson, James Ategeka Mugarama. Mugarama was arrested on Monday for allegedly assaulting the Resident District Commissioner Jane Asiimwe Muhindo. On Wednesday, the court presided over by the Grade Two Magistrate Nathan Mulindwa heard …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum District Coronavirus Task force Committee has budgeted for 1.48 billion shillings to tackle the spread of coronavirus disease. This comes as the district is battling to streamline its operation amidst limited funds through the taskforce committee formed to fight covid19 Pandemic. Martin Jacan Gwokto, …
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Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pastor Moses Solomon Male, the head of Arising for Christ Ministries and outspoken critic of the prosperity gospel in Pentecostal churches is chest thumping; saying the Covid19 pandemic has exposed all fraudsters who have been preaching “the gospel of extortion”. Male, who is living a …
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