Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC)-Central Government is investigating the excess funds that were released by the Ministry of Finance to regional referral hospitals for gratuity in the last financial year. The matter stems from the June 2021 audit report in which Auditor General John Muwanga …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health will acquire land across the country for expansion of national referral hospitals and health training facilities. The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Aceng who appeared before the Committee on Health to defend proposals in the 2022/2023 Budget Framework Paper, said that due …
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Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA – URN | The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has written to the government asking it to address low staffing levels and lack of necessary equipment in regional referral hospitals across the country. In an interview on Wednesday, the UMA Secretary General Dr Mukuzi Muhereza narrated …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The authorities of various regional referral hospitals want the monopoly of National Medical Stores to procure and supply medicine broken, according to the Public Accounts Committee Chairperson, Nathan Nandala Mafabi. He disclosed this on Tuesday as his committee was finalizing its engagements with National …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has asked the government to allocate sh7.5 billion for dialysis centres in the 13 regional referral hospitals. Dialysis is purification of blood done for patients whose kidneys cannot sufficiently function. It is estimated that about 8 million Ugandans suffer from kidney related diseases, …
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