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. …

  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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Access to health care services has become a nightmare to several city residents because of the ongoing lock down. On Wednesday last week, president, Yoweri Museveni banned public transport as a control measure against the spread of the coronavirus following the confirmation several cases …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] president Dr Kizza Besigye has said President Museveni erred by stopping politicians and other well-wishers from donating relief items to those most affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement, Besigye, Museveni’s four-time challenger said, instead of banning …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is planning to turn Mandela National Stadium (Namboole) into a health facility if the number of COVID-19 cases increase. This was revealed on Wednesday by Diana Atwine, the Health Ministry Permanent Secretary while appearing before the parliamentary committee on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1.5 million vulnerable Ugandans will receive food items. This was revealed by the Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda on Wednesday while presenting a statement to Parliament on the COVID-19 pandemic and government’s preparations and intervention. According to Rugunda, each vulnerable person will receive at least …

Paris, France | AFP | The heads of three global agencies warned Wednesday of the risk of a worldwide “food shortage” if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Many governments around the world have put their populations on lockdown causing severe slow-downs in international trade and food supply chains. Panic buying by …