Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met leaders of the Uganda Medical Association over the ongoing sit-down strike demanding for better working conditions. In a statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit, Museveni reiterated his government’s commitment to salary enhancement for medical practitioners and scientists in …
Read More »500,000 babies exposed to polio and tuberculosis at birth-MOH
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500,000 babies in Uganda are exposed to polio and tuberculosis. This is because they are not born in hospitals. When children are born, they are supposed to receive polio zero and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin |(BCG) vaccines which protect against tuberculosis at birth. The vaccines …
Read More »Dealing with brittle bone disease, a patients ordeal
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 36-year-old Asher Namatovu suddenly gets her bones broken with every small fall, hit or even when she misses a step. She got her first fracture at the age of six and has had countless fractures ever since. The latest was her hardest hit episode when …
Read More »Doctors paying exorbitant bills to seek Covid-19 treatment in private hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 10 doctors who have suffered from severe forms of COVID-19 have been forced to seek care from private hospitals. This is due to the lack of ICU beds in government hospitals. According to the Uganda Medical Association-UMA, their colleagues who on average earn …
Read More »Mulago doctors remove knife from man’s head
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors at Mulago hospital have removed a big knife that was stuck in the skull of a man who was attacked by thugs along Nakawa-Kinawataka road and robbed on Wednesday. Ndakayisenge Emmanuel, a 22 year old employee of Pepsi-Uganda working as a turn boy and …
Read More »Cancer to kill more as Covid-19 forces doctors to delay therapy
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of cancer related deaths is expected to rise because doctors are delaying treatment for cancer patients who test positive for COVID-19, according to the Uganda Cancer Institute(UCI). According to doctors at UCI, they are pausing cancer treatment for patients as they first treat …
Read More »State Minister for Cooperatives cautions doctors against greed
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Cooperatives Fredrick Ngobi Gume, has cautioned doctors against greed which he says is killing cooperative societies in the country. Gume was speaking during a function where a donation of COVID-19 protective gear was handed over to Kampala Medical and Health …
Read More »Nearly 200 health workers infected with COVID-19 in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s battle against Covid-19 gets more complicated as the deadly virus is harvesting the very people at the forefront of fighting it–the doctors. The 192 doctors already hit by the virus represent 4% of the five thousand Ugandans who have so far tested positive which …
Read More »Doctors want interns deployed as medical officers on probation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors under their umbrella Uganda Medical Association (UMA) want medical interns to be placed into hospitals as medical officers on probation. UMA president Dr Richard Idro said that the Ministry of Health is setting up a committee to come up with a document on …
Read More »Doctors want gov’t to hire more specialists for regional referral hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association want government to recruit more health workers for regional referral hospitals. According to the organisation, an assessment recently carried out revealed that many regional referral hospitals do not have enough enough doctors.The worst staffed hospitals according to the association …
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