Change agents helping rural mothers embrace positive health mindsets
BRAC Health Program developed a mobile medic app that tracks expectant mothers from day one until the delivery date.
Category: Health
Acholi leaders speak as USAID invests $38m for malaria control in Uganda
Malaria cases and deaths in Acholi among other regions are high. For Acholi, it has 76% of regional cases are recorded in the households.
Lango: The lives of diabetic patients and experts’ guidance as cases rise
Joshua Ogweng, a resident in Lira City and one of the diabetic patients was confirmed positive for diabetes in 2006. Sixteen years later, he has not recovered as he continues to take his medication timely.
Do we need medical officers in lower health facilities in Uganda?
It will be a wastage of human resources if medical officers are placed in lower facilities yet actually the major hospitals don’t have enough.
Special Report: Sicker than patients, Soroti RRH struggles to offer services: patients share a bed
A fact-finding tour in the hospital conducted by Capt. Mike Mukula, Peter Pex Paak, Resident City Commissioner [RCC] of Soroti, and the hospital administration found several departments operating in a sorrowful state.
For Museveni to be taken seriously, UPDF should be pushing science to drive policy
The UPDF should be pushing science to drive policy if at all Museveni should be taken seriously on his scientific assertions.
The sacrifices made by nurses and midwives that go unnoticed
Intimidating nurses is not a solution rather negotiating and solving the issue of salary discrepancies would be the best strategy
World’s first statue of a woman with terminal breast cancer in front of the Norwegian Parliament
“This statue is a monument to women with metastatic breast cancer and a call to all of us to give extra care, attention, and support to the affected patients, ” says Harris Utne.
Lango: Hope at last for teenage mothers after Covid-19 lockdown havoc
“When the government reopened schools, most teenage mothers went into hiding due to stigma and fear but they managed to use case management to identify the teen mothers,” said Tommy Okada.
Kilak health centre III receives midwifery kits worth shs10m
Everline Abalo, a mother in Kilak, Pader sub-county, appreciated Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union
Why Lira City was chosen to host World TB Day 2022
TB is still one of the killer diseases in Uganda and it contributes to around 83% of people living with tuberculosis worldwide.
Amudat woman MP gifts Karita Health Centre IV with mama kits
The mama kits and other medical supplies are worth millions of shilling, the publication has been told.