Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Alfred Yayi has called for the need to improve staffing levels at the intensive care unit. Yayi says that the ICU is fully equipped with 10 beds and each bed requires three standby nurses, however, there are only …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The UPDF engineering brigade has handed over a newly constructed intensive care unit-ICU ward to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. The unit which cost 800 Million Shillings was constructed over the last 18 months. The ICU ward was fitted with 10 ICU beds and six other …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fresh details have emerged about the missing members of the Christ Disciples’ Church show that they were aided to travel to Ethiopia by the Iteso Cultural Union- ICU. Correspondences seen by our reporter indicate that ICU was in touch with the leadership of Nyangatom …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Paul Sande Emolot Etomeileng has been gazetted as the Iteso cultural leader. Emolot, 61, was installed as Iteso Paramount Chief in October 2022 after a court battle with the rival group that contested his election as caretaker Emorimor in April, after the death of former …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Catherine Atukwatse, 34, a mother of three and resident of Kemikyera cell, Sheema municipality has spent three years in the Intensive Care Unit at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital due to chronic kidney failure. Admitted to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit in …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The newly installed Paramount Chief of Iteso, Paul Sande Emolot Etomeileng, has implored the Iteso to unite and embrace education for the development of Teso. Emolot was enthroned at Soroti Mayor’s Garden on Saturday to replace the former Emorimor, Augustine Osuban Lemukol who succumbed to …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Paul Sande Emolot, the newly elected leader of the Iteso Cultural Union-ICU has been criticized for his alleged involvement in partisan politics. Emolot came under the spotlight after negotiating for the alleged withdrawal of the National Unity Platform-NUP candidate Joseph Okoboi Opolot during the Gogonyo …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Religious leaders in Teso are calling for divine intervention in pursuit of peace and reconciliation in the leadership of Iteso Cultural Union-ICU. A cross-section of religious leaders drawn from Uganda and Kenya are leading the new drive which will start with an interdenominational prayer breakfast slated …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders from the Southern districts under the Iteso Cultural Union have disassociated themselves from the announcement of Mzee Nicholas Dokoria as a parallel Emorimor by a section of elders. Over the weekend, a group of elders under the Iteso Cultural Union sitting in Soroti city …
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Bukedea, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso Cultural Union-ICU in conjunction with Akogo festivals have embarked on a mass tree planting campaign dubbed, “Plant a tree, save generations” across the Teso sub-region. The campaign is targeting all the districts of Teso including Busia, Butebo, Pallisa, and Tororo. Emmanuel Edulu, the Director …
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