Tag: Ministry of health

In 2010, President Museveni launched Village Health Teams (VHTs) in what he called the Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) programme which was aimed at curbing the then soaring numbers of ...

The Ministry of Health has confirmed nine cases of Ebola in the Greater Kampala region. This brings the total number of patients in the capital to 14 within the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private healthcare providers in the East African Region are pushing for collaborations to cut down on the number of foreign medical referrals within member countries.  Experts from 16 countries in ...

Village Health Teams-VHTs in Fort-Portal City are demanding a monthly salary to cater for the expenses incurred while monitoring and reporting community health.  The VHTs Program was established in 2001 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of people admitted at Mubende Referral Hospital suspected of suffering from Ebola has increased from 21 to 30.  Health workers at Mubende hospital said that the patients were ...