Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA | Greater adoption of mobile payment innovations should be at the heart of preventive and curative interventions aimed at reducing Africa’s burden of infectious diseases, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday. Ahmed Hamani, finance officer at WHO Regional Office for Africa said that …
Read More »Hoima hospital under probe for chasing Covid-19 patients
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima Regional Referral Hospital is under investigation for allegedly chasing people who tested positive for COVID-19. It is said that the hospital management ejected up to 20 people who tested positive for the virus at the health facility last week on Tuesday. Reports indicate that …
Read More »COVID-19: Budaka, Tororo districts suspend annual leave for health workers
Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 task forces in Budaka and Tororo have resolved to cancel and suspend leave requests, and recall all the health workers in the district over the increasing cases of COVID-19. According to the district officials, all health workers on leave are supposed to report …
Read More »Health workers seeing critical Covid-19 patients with negative PCR results
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Is a negative PCR test a guarantee for absence of the coronavirus in one’s body? This is a question that has of recent been baffling health workers with increasing rates of patients reportedly with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and yet have negative test results. Dr. …
Read More »Masindi hospital health workers abandon patients over lack of PPE
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers at Masindi General Hospital have laid down their tools due to lack of Personal Protective Equipment-PPE. This has left several Covid-19 patients stranded. Most of the health workers who spoke to Uganda Radio Network on condition of anonymity noted that all the PPE …
Read More »Busia health workers demand risk allowance as Covid-19 cases surge
Busia health workers want special allowances from the government because they are battling with the life of COVID-19 patients admitted in severe condition amidst challenges of lack of Personal Protective Equipment. Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers in Busia district want the government to give them risk allowances as …
Read More »Lack of PPEs exposing health workers in Jinja to Covid-19
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The lack of protective gears at different health facilities in Jinja is exposing health workers to Covid-19. At five health centre IVs which include Bugembe, Mpumudde, Walukuba, Budondo and Buwenge, frontline health workers had run out of gloves and facemasks. In some facilities, those turning …
Read More »Kitumba sub county residents struggle to access Bwama health Ccntre III
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Kitumba Sub County in Kabale District are struggling to access services at Bwama Health Centre III. Located at Bwama Island in the middle of Lake Bunyonyi, Bwama health centre III serves residents from Kitumba sub-county and Bufundi sub-county in Rubanda district. However, there …
Read More »Latest deadly ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo declared over
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was declared officially over on Monday, just three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu. The virus – an often-fatal illness spread through contact with bodily fluids, kills, on average, …
Read More »MOH, nurses union against COVID-19 vaccination allowance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health and representatives from the Uganda Nurses and Midwife Union (UNMU) are against the government’s proposed allowance for health workers involved in the COVID-19 vaccination process. According to a circular released last week by the ministry of public service, nurses who are …
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