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From a lack of hospital beds and ambulances, to the widespread use of expired drugs, KCs document the impact inadequate healthcare resources have on communities.
KCS also report announcements of donor-funded projects from transnational bodies, governments and non governmental organisations, and the impact spending boosts and cuts are having on ordinary people's attempts to stay healthy.
KCs also examine the way international agreements such as Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights affect the treatment people living in resource poor settings receive.
Dilemma as district suffers shortage of health workers
From www.monitor.co.ug
Access to medical attention by patients in critical condition has turned into a nightmare for Adjumani residents as a shortage of doctors continues to haunt the district hospital in Northern Uganda. go
Arua hospital faces closure over toilets
From www.monitor.co.ug
Uganda: Arua Regional Referral Hospital and police headquarters face closure over poor hygiene due to filled up pit-latrines. go
Absent health workers ‘should be arrested’, says resident district commissioner
Health workers who absent themselves from work should be arrested, according to the resident district commissioner of Isingiro in Western Uganda, Fabian Bomera. more
More investment in youth needed as world population tops 7 billion, say UNFPA
Today (31 October, 2011), the world population is projected to reach seven billion. How we respond now will determine whether we have a healthy, sustainable and prosperous future or one that is marked by inequalities, environmental decline and economic setbacks, argues the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in its State of World Population 2011 report published last Wednesday (26 October, 2011). more
Overcrowding at hosptial must stop, warns doctor
Thomas Obong, principal administrator at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, has urged the government to recruit doctors and make health units in the region fit for purpose to decongest the main hospital. more
Zimbabwe launches Health Transition Fund
A new financing scheme that may see health service fees abolished for women and children and 30,000 lives saved has been launched in Zimbabwe. more
Global Fund transfers HIV grant in Mali from National AIDS Council to new recipient
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will transfer management of a US$28.77 million HIV/AIDS grant from Mali’s national AIDS council, the Haut Conseil de Lutte contre le Sida (HCLNS), to a new principal recipient at the end of the year. more
Global Fund: errors of interpretation and possible omission
Since the launch of the 11th round of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria great confusion remains regarding the application of the concept of ‘most at risk populations’ (MARPs). This has resulted in the exclusion of some sex worker groups from recent Round 11 proposals, reports KC Javier Hourcade Bellocq. more
Women in Soroti, Uganda trained to monitor corruption via SMS messages
Women in Soroti district, Eastern Uganda have been trained on sending SMS messages as a way to monitor health sector and education corruption. more
Health workers coverage in Uganda stuck at 56% countrywide
From www.monitor.co.ug
The proportion of trained health workers across the country has stagnated at 56 per cent for the last two years, a situation that has affected the efficiency of the sector, the health minister has said. go
Patients sharing beds at Kawempe Health Centre, Uganda
KC Williams Moi reports from Kawempe Health Center IV in Kampala, Uganda where patients are sharing beds and facilities are poor. more
Development INGO World Vision leaves Karugutu, Western Uganda
World Vision has wrapped up work in Karugutu, Western Uganda after 14 years of transformational development, reports KC Araali.
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Former managers from Mulago Hospital investigated over shs 4 bn scanning machine
The top managers of Mulago Hospital, in Kamapla are being investigated over a faulty shs 4bn brain scanning machine. According to the Ministry of Health permanent secretary Asuman Lukwago, a number of officers are suspected of procuring a fake machine which is now lying idle. more
Activists ask govt to address maternal health this year
From www.monitor.co.ug
Civil Society activists from Nakaseke, Luweero and Kampala have petitioned government to address the problem of preventable maternal deaths this financial year, less than a week since a 2011 survey report indicated that the country needs more than 2,000 midwives to ensure safe child birth. go
Hospital collapse blamed on ‘mismanagement’, lack of funds and equipment
The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC)’s Health Centre III in Campswahili Northern division, Soroti Municipality, Uganda has collapsed – and ‘mismanagement’ from previous board members, inadequate funds and a lack of equipment has been blamed. KC Loyan reports. more
5.5 million US dollars earmarked for maternal health in Rwenzori, West Nile
A 5.5 million dollar project focusing on maternal mortality reduction in Uganda begins this month. Dubbed Save Mothers, its pilot aims to half the number of maternal deaths in five West Nile districts within a year. more
Zimbabwe signs 15 million dollar deal with World Bank to improve maternal and child health
The government of Zimbabwe has signed a $15 million health development deal with the World Bank to provide basic medical equipment for rural districts to improve maternal and child health. more
A day in the life of a Ugandan health centre
KC Julia Vera eye witness account of life at a health centre in Eastern Uganda. more
Warning issued after ‘reliable evidence’ suggests health workers are selling drugs
The Secretary for Social Services in Kumi district, Eastern Uganda Esau Ebukitoit has issued a strong warning against health workers in the district after uncovering “reliable information” that free government drugs are being sold to patients. more
30 million dollars cancer clinic to be built in Uganda
The government of Uganda has commissioned the construction of a cancer clinic and training institute worth over 3 million US dollars. more
Uganda: Gulu hospital short of space
From www.monitor.co.ug
Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, the biggest health facility in the region, which is in the north of Uganda, is grappling with acute shortage of space for patients admitted to different wards as the number of people seeking treatment at the facility has sharply risen in the last two years.
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MP donates five ambulances to save lives in Bufumbira North, Uganda
Five ambulances have been donated to health centers in Bufumbira North Constituency, mountainous and hilly area in South West Uganda by the local MP. more
Uganda Ministry of Health to give women free maternal kits
From www.monitor.co.ug
In bid to save the lives of pregnant women in hospitals, the government will next year start giving out free maternal health kits used to enable women give birth safely and hygienically. go
First hospital commissioned on Uganda’s Busisi island
From beta.newvisionuganda.info
The newly-commissioned Rapha Hospital in Bussi Island, in the ugandan Wakiso district, is registering an average of one birth per day, the hospital officials have said. go
Ugandan health ministry to hire 2000 nurses
From redpepper.co.ug
The ministry of health is to hire 2000 midwives this financial year in a bid to curb maternal mortality in the country. The recruitment was announced over the weekend by Dr. Christine Ondoa, the Health Minister. go
Men need earlier colon cancer screening
From www.presstv.com
Researchers at the Austrian Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology say men tend to develop colon cancer at an earlier age than their female counterparts. go
Who will heal Uganda’s sick health sector?
From allafrica.com
When his teenage wife went into labour, John Emegu wedged her on a bicycle between himself and his grandmother and pedalled furiously for 11 miles. But on reaching the nearest hospital, his relief quickly turned to despair. go
Uganda’s Arua Hospital ‘not any better off’
From www.monitor.co.ug
As one enters the congested medical wards, there is a sense of distress especially at night where patients and nurses have to fidget with candles and lamps that provide insufficient light. There is a shortage of medical personnel at the hospital. go
Over half of Ugandan women anaemic
From www.newvision.co.ug
OVER 8.4 million women in Uganda are anaemic, a condition where one lacks enough blood, the health ministry has disclosed. go
$25 million donated by US to Uganda to prevent mother to child HIV transmission
The United States Government has pledged 25 million US dollars to support the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission program in Uganda. more
Uganda: the cost of intellectual property rights
KC Kateregga reports on the impact of intellectual property rights in Uganda, where half of the one million people living with HIV need antiretroviral therapy yet only 40 percent have access to it. more
United States government pledges millions to PMTCT in Uganda
The United States government has pledged 25 million dollars to support the prevention of HIV mother to child transmission progrmmes in Uganda.
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