Health

MOH Heightens Surveillance, Public Awareness Campaigns on MPOX

The Ministry of Health has enhanced surveillance and public awareness to reduce the increasing number of MPOX cases. Uganda is facing an escalating outbreak of MPOX with 262 reported cases...

MOH Launches 2nd Phase of Cold Chain Equipment to Strengthen Immunization

The Ministry of Health (MOH), through the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization (UNEPI), has launched the second...

The Sweet Salvation of Hangover: Why Cold, Sweet Drinks are the Ultimate Remedy

The dreaded hangover, the pounding headache, the nausea, and the fatigue are a miserable combination that can leave...

UAC Rolls Out New Campaign to End Stigma and Promote HIV Testing

A new campaign dubbed "Wear the Red Ribbon" has been rolled out by the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC)...

Uganda Secures 500,000 Doses of Hepatitis B Vaccine

The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, that it had secured a total of 500,000...

CONFIRMED: Kabanda has only one kidney-Medical Council

The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council -UMDPC has confirmed that Muhamood Kabanda was born with only one kidney. In a report released on Thursday, the Council refuted allegations on the missing kidney by Kabanda following a surgical operation at Old Kampala Hospital. The council further confirmed that Kabanda was born with only the RIGHT kidney. The report signed by both Professor Joel Okullo, the Chairman of the Council, and Dr. Katumba Ssentongo, the Registrar, ruled out the claim and established that...

Dr. Aceng Commissions Madudu Isolation Facility to Admit Ebola Cases

The Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero on Monday 17th October 2022, commissioned Madudu Isolation facility in Mubende District to begin admitting suspected cases of Ebola. “On 17th October 2022 at 1:30pm, we commissioned Madudu Isolation facility in Mubende district to begin admitting suspect cases of Ebola,” Dr. Aceng stated. The commissioning follows the escalation of Ebola cases in the district that needed a special facility for the control and treatment of the Virus. Aceng along with partners such as...

Soroti Hospital confirms first Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Patient

Medical doctors at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital have confirmed one patient from Aprikila Sub County in Kaberamaido District with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF). According to Dr. Wilson Etolu, a consultant physician at Soroti Hospital, the patient was admitted on Wednesday 12th October after she received a referral from Kaberamaido Hospital. Etolu said that the patient had developed severe headache and stomachache that needed further management. A close relative to the patient revealed that the condition had persisted even after receiving medication at...

President directs full mobilization of Kampala into a response mode

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has directed for a full mobilization of Kampala City into a response mode against Ebola Virus Disease-EVD. The directive followed the confirmation of contacts of two Ebola cases from Mubende District. “For Kampala City, while the two cases that tested positive came from Mubende District and are regarded as Mubende cases, because of the presence of the contacts of these two cases and the risks of infection, I have directed a full mobilization of Kampala City into...