Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors working at different hospitals report having a huge drop in both in and outpatients at their respective work stations something that they worry might overwhelm them when President Yoweri Museveni finally lifts the lockdown. The doctors were attending a virtual meeting organized by …
Read More »Coronavirus can circulate in the air for 2 hours -New Study
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A study published in the journal Nature Research shows that the coronavirus can stay and rotate within the air for two hours in crowded or places that have limited ventilation. In a study carried out in two hospitals in Wuhan China at the height of …
Read More »Masaka taskforce clears free movement of discharged patients from hospitals
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients discharged from hospitals around Masaka can now find transport means to their respective homes after a clearance by Herman Ssentongo, the Masaka Resident District Commissioner. Ssentongo has responded to the outcries of scores of discharged patients that have been stuck at different hospitals …
Read More »Uganda needs 300 more health facilities -Ministry of Health
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry needs to construct an additional 300 health facilities so as to extend quality health care services to all Ugandans. According to the Health Ministry, there is need to increase the number of General hospitals, health center IVs and IIIs if …
Read More »Drones to deliver blood supplies to hospitals by March, 2020
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some hospitals in Kampala will have their blood supplies delivered by drones by March 2020, thanks to a government nod to an initiative by Ugandan German innovator John Goslino. Goslino’s blood connect project secured government approval through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Although …
Read More »Insurance premiums to increase as players cater for fraud
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans and companies buying insurance policies will likely pay higher premiums after insurance companies discovered widespread fraud by hospitals and some customers in the medical insurance side. The increased premium cost is a direct impact of fraud in insurance with insurers moving to cover that …
Read More »Hospitals face termination by insurance companies over fraud
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several hospitals face termination from serving clients who have health insurance policies after insurance companies accused them of fraud. This comes after The Uganda Insurers Association (UIA)-commissioned a fraud survey in 2018/19 financial year that found wide-spread cheating with hospitals putting in fictitious claims. …
Read More »‘We are scared’: Deadly dengue outbreak overwhelms Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh | AFP | Five-year-old Mohammad Ahnaf lies in a makeshift bed in the balcony of a major hospital in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, fighting for his life as dengue fever ravages his little body. But his mother Shimul Akhter knows he is one of the lucky ones as Bangladesh grapples …
Read More »THE WEEK: Medical equipment to be assessed for standards
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team from General Electric, an American multinational that deals in among others healthcare equipment arrived in the country on Jan.14 to conduct an assessment of the status of medical equipment in Regional Referral Hospitals, General Hospitals and Health centres. This assessment will facilitate …
Read More »Health ministry tasks UMEME to put hospitals on direct power lines
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has asked power distributor UMEME to consider connecting all Regional Referral hospitals on stable power lines to ensure they don’t experience outages. This follows two power outages at Naguru Hospital last week. The first outage occurred on December 31st, 2018 around 9:00 …
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