People aged 50 and above, as well as those with comorbidities aged above 18 have been included on the Covid-19 vaccination priority list.While speaking at a public engagement on the Covid-19 vaccination exercise on Tuesday, Dr Alfred Driwale, the progr…

At least 2,300 residents of Arua District have been vaccinated against yellow fever in the just concluded vaccination exercise by the National Medical Stores (NMS).Dr Paul Bishop Drileba, the district health officer, called for the extension of the exe…

At least 1,038 new-born babies and 52 mothers have died in Lira District in a span of two years due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth.Data obtained from the office of the district biostatician, Mr Geoffrey Ariko, revealed that 257 new-bo…

At least eight people have lost their lives in separate road accidents on the same day in Lango Sub-region.On Thursday, two Fuso trucks belonging to Baba Oscar Transporters, owned by businessman Bosco Oryem, got involved in two separate accidents in Ot…

Uganda lost at least 58 doctors and nurses in the last 15 months, some to Covid-19, according to Uganda Medical Association (UMA).Records of the association, which is the umbrella body for doctors in the country, show that 11 doctors of Ugandan origin …

GENEVA – The World Health Organization reports the African continent is lagging in the race to vaccinate its people against the deadly coronavirus. WHO says Africa needs far greater access to COVID-19 vaccines to reach its goal of vaccinating 60 percent of the population by June 2022. Africa received its first delivery of vaccines from […]

JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN – The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in South Sudan’s Juba International Airport on Thursday. The 132,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be offered first to health care workers, including doctors and nurses, along with other vulnerable groups. South Sudan Health Minister Elizabeth Achuil said 732,000 additional doses are […]

Five people have been confirmed dead while five others have sustained grievous injuries in a motor accident that happened at Wamatovu-Nakirebe Village in Mpigi District along Kampala-Masaka highway.The incident which occurred at around 5.45am on Monday…

Government yesterday received 100,000 additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine which were donated by the Indian government.While addressing journalists at Entebbe International Airport after receiving the consignment on Sunday, Health minister Jane Ruth Ac…

Health facilities in Kampala Metropolitan Area have registered 48 per cent decline in acute respiratory illnesses among children aged below five, a new report indicates.Up to 21,983 deaths nationally occurred among children aged below five, who suffere…

The Health Ministry has said it is running pilot projects in some health facilities to determine ways of including treatment for non-communicable diseases to usual HIV/Aids treatment so as to curb deaths among the patients.Uganda lost 21,000 HIV patien…

Makerere University has designed and developed a 3D printed face shield for frontline health workers involved in the fight against Covid-19.The innovation by the College of Biosciences was a response to the government call for innovations on preventive…

The world’s population, years over, has been affected by a number of viral diseases such a Ebola and Influenza which, in some cases, have caused millions of deaths.The severity of the attacks is often assessed ‘country by country’ or ‘continent by cont…