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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Minister of Information and National Guidance, Judith Nabakooba has announced that wearing of masks while in public will now be mandatory. Nabakooba said government will start enforcing it now that the Ministry of Health has started to distribute masks in the districts of Kampala, Wakso and Mukono. …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Gulu Regional Referral Hospital is struggling to respond to health emergencies following the breakdown of its two ambulances.  The ambulances include one that was in June donated by the Ministry of Health to respond to Covid-19 emergencies and the other given by the government in …

Kabale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Kabale regional referral hospital has suspended the admission of patients after the facility registered a COVID-19 positive case.   The 56-year-old Imam, a resident of Nyakijumba in the southern division, Kabale municipality was admitted at the hospital on Sunday. He had traveled by bus from Kampala …

Nakaseke, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nakaseke hospital has registered an increase in the number of women accessing maternal health services. Several residents in Nakaseke had resorted to seeking services from private facilities accusing the medical staff of negligence, corruption and lack of equipment among others. The High Court in Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Lead poisoning is affecting children on a massive and previously unknown scale, up to 800 million globally, said a study released on Thursday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Pure Earth. “With few early symptoms, lead silently wreaks havoc on children’s health and development, …

Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nakaseke hospital has registered an increase in the number of women accessing maternal health services. Several residents in Nakaseke had resorted to seeking services from private facilities accusing the medical staff of negligence, corruption and lack of equipment among others. The High Court in Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has advised health facilities to treat all patients admitted with acute respiratory tract symptoms or illnesses such as pneumonia with high suspicion for COVID-19. The advice was given by the health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng during a national address …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda is likely to lose over 6.5 billion shillings in wasted vaccines due to the COVID-19 lockdown. According to the health ministry, most wastage is recorded with vaccines that have multiple doses such as Measles/Rubella or the BCG vaccine for whooping cough normally given at …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The family of the-80-year-old female who reportedly succumbed to COVID-19 on Friday 25 has denied the health ministry access to carry out contact tracing. The 80-year-old was admitted to Platinum hospital for seven days before her condition deteriorated. Then she was sent to Mengo hospital …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Pece Prison in East Division in Gulu City has been placed under the 14 days’ mandatory quarantine after one of the inmates tested positive for COVID-19.  The inmate, whose identity has been withheld, was transferred to Pece Prisons from Amuru district on June 30th, 2020. …