Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A mother has sued St. Francis Hospital Nsambya for alleged professional negligence. In a suit filed before Civil Division of High Court in Kampala through her lawyers of Kirunda and Wasige Advocates, Rose Namara contends that she was admitted at St Francis Nsambya Hospital on April …
Read More »Gender Ministry formulating new maternity package for working mothers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Many women especially first time mothers miss an important step in appropriate newborn care, and as such, do not initiate their babies on breast milk in the initial hours after childbirth. This is according to the State Minister for Primary Health Care Dr Joyce …
Read More »Breastmilk donation: A wet nurses’ experience with quintuplets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Noelene Namugwanya had just had her first baby three months ago when her cousin Honoranta Nakato delivered five babies through a Caesarian section at the Women’s Fertility Hospital in Bukoto. On October 19, 2018, her quintuplets had arrived early at only seven months. But, that …
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