Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity if governments don’t...

Global leaders confirmed USD 2.6 billion in funding toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiatives at a pledging moment at the World Health Summit in Berlin. The Bill and Melinda Gates...

Hoima Regional Referral Hospital is seeking 2.8 billion Shillings to purchase drugs and other medical supplies.  In the second quarter, the hospital was allocated 1.3 Billion Shillings to procure medicines...

A scan recommended by the Uganda Police has revealed that a 25-year-old man, Muhamood Kabanda who accused Old Kampala Hospital of harvesting his Kidney was born without the second Kidney....

In celebrating World Sight Day, Lapaire a pan-African eye care company, joined the rest of the world to mark the celebrations by putting up a free Vision Test across all...

In a press release issued by the British High Commission in Kampala, United Kingdom is to provide Shs 9.3 billion (£2.2m) to international agencies involved in the fight against the...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has announced a total lockdown in the districts of Mubende and Kasanda effective immediately. In a live televised address, Museveni said some Ebola victims were escaping...

The United Kingdom has provided £2.2m approximately 9.3 Billion Shillings to the United Nations agencies working with Uganda in the fight against the Ebola epidemic. The British High Commission to...

Mulago hospital is Uganda’s largest hospital and most advanced public hospital, meant to be the epitome of excellence in medicine and care. For those who cannot afford expensive private hospitals...

The Ministry of Health will this month start offering yellow fever vaccines to children aged nine to twelve months, following the vaccine’s inclusion into the routine immunization schedule.   Dr. Fred...