Health

Kyegegwa District has heightened health surveillance following an outbreak of Ebola in the neighboring Mubende District. The Health Ministry last week confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in Mubende District after a...

A suspected Ebola patient has been admitted to an isolation ward at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.  Doctor Edwin Okello, the in-charge of the Epidemiology Ward said that the male patient...

Katwe Health Centre III in Kasese District is struggling to operate without accommodation for its staff.       The health centre built in the 1950s has dilapidated staff houses with some inhabitable...

Kasangati residents are on edge following the death of a patient at Kasangati Health Centre IV who presented with ebola-like symptoms. According to Dr Ssejibwa Peter, the deceased is a...

St. Francis Naggalama hospital management is to set up a high resolution 128 slices Computerized Tomography (CT) scan machine.  The hospital signed an agreement with Joint Medical Stores-JMS to establish...

Rotary International has injected over 350 million Shillings to provide vital signs equipment to health centers in four districts.  Some of the equipment includes a stethoscope, digital Blood Pressure machine,...

The World Health Organization -WHO  has urged health workers in Uganda not to consider using Ebola therapeutic medicines used to treat patients in the neighboring DR Congo, saying these will...

As 34 Medical workers on the ebola frontlines at Mubende regional referral hospital went on strike on Monday. We managed to get through to one of them to get an...

A group of 34 Intern medical Doctors treating Ebola patients at Mubende regional referral hospital have gone on strike protesting government's failure to get them personal protective equipment. One of...

South African manufacturer Tiger Brands has recalled its Purity Essentials Baby Powder Products after finding levels of asbestos, a chemical whose exposure has been linked to various cancers in test...