Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The closure of Entebbe hospital has angered residents in the area. The hospital was closed to inpatients on Monday due to a surge in the number of Covid-19 patients being admitted at the hospital. Management announced that it will only provide outpatient services like chronic …
Read More »Kabale hospital runs out of space for Covid-19 patients
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale Regional Referral Hospital is struggling with space for coronavirus patients as numbers continue to surge. The facility was designated to handle patients from across the Kigezi region as the government decentralized COVID-19 case treatment services. Dr Sophie Namasopo, the hospital director says that the …
Read More »Oxygen shortage hits Moroto hospital
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto Regional Referral Hospital is facing a shortage of oxygen for critically ill Covid-19 patients. Moroto Regional Referral Hospital has an oxygen plant but its current production rate is much lower than its capacity of 15 cylinders per day. According to the hospital director, Dr …
Read More »Entebbe hospital struggling with limited space for Covid-19 patients
Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital cannot admit any more cases as the facility currently has 45 Covid-19 patients with 15 critically ill and in need of oxygen full time Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital is currently struggling with space constraints in the ward for Covid-19 patients. When the hospital reopened …
Read More »Mulago and Entebbe hospital ICUs full of Covid-19 patients
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The intensive care units at Mulago National Referral Hospital and Entebbe General Hospital are full of COVID-19 patients according to medics. This comes weeks after the country entered the second wave of COVID-19 cases which many scientists predicted would be worse compared to the first one …
Read More »Operations of Luwero hospital private wing suspended over extortion
Luwero health center IV was upgraded to hospital status to improve service delivery in the district Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Luwero district council has suspended the operations of the private wing at Luwero hospital over abuse and extortion of money from patients. In the 2019/20 financial year, Luwero health …
Read More »51.4 percent of people in central, South West have hearing impairments
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 51.4 percent of people living in the Central and South Western Uganda have suffered from some sort of hearing impairment. This is according to the Otolaryngology Society of Uganda. The Otolaryngology Society is an organisation that brings together professionals that treat patients who …
Read More »Residents protest closure of Butiaba health center III
Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Butiaba sub county in Buliisa district are protesting the closure of Butiaba health center III that has hampered health services in the area. Health officials in the district closed Butiaba health center III last week after failing to secure a better place where patients …
Read More »Butiaba health centre III closed
Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Butiaba Health Center III in Buliisa District has been closed leaving hundreds of patients stranded. Last year, the health centre was submerged following the rising water levels of Lake Albert. The staff quarters, maternity, male and female wards, store, Outpatient Department-OPD and roads leading to …
Read More »Entebbe Hospital to reopen to the general public next month
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital will reopen to the public next month. The hospital had closed the outpatient, dental, optical, maternal and child care departments in March last year to focus on the effective management of COVID-19 patients. Before its closure, the hospital served a population …
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