Mulago Hospital Cuts Costs To Reduce Kidney Diseases
To manage increasing cases of Kidney disease, Mulago Referral Hospital is set to create a system where patients will pay...
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Minister Ondoa: High Blood Pressure Emerging Silent Killer in Uganda
High blood pressure has been singled out as a silent killer, and the public urged to make regular medical check-ups...
Nodding Disease Report will Be out Next week
Nodding disease patients The minister for Health Dr Chritine Ondoa has said the Much Awaited Nodding Disease Report will be...
Kalangala Struggles To Attract Health Workers
With a 75% deployment of health care workers to Kalangala District, it hoped that the health care service will improve,...
Scientists: Red Meat Chemical Damages The Heart
Scientists believe red meat contains a chemical that is bad for the heart A chemical found in red meat helps...
Saliva Test Can Reveal Cancer risk – Researchers
Saliva can help detect cancer A simple saliva test that reveals a patient's risk of breast or prostate cancer may...
Arua Hospital: Cerebral Palsy On the Rise in West Nile
Arua referral hospital is struggling to cope with the high number of patients suffering from cerebral palsy as a result...
River Blindness a Public Health Problem in Northern Uganda – MOH
The Health Ministry and Carter center have embarked on emergency measures to combat river blindness in post conflict districts in...
Mistroprosol: The “Wonder” Drug for Women in Labour
Women in labour. The drug mistroprosol is used to reduce against peptic ulcers 33 year old Juliet Ddungu on the...
Dr. Alex Coutinho Scoops Hideyo Noguchi African Medical Award
Dr Coutinho at work The United Nations University issued a statement on the prize recognizing individuals or organizations who have...
New Mulago Hospital Clinic Offers Hope for TB Patients
Patients battling the multi drug resistant TB strain have got a ray of hope following the inauguration of a new...
Mulago to Register Patients Electronically
Mulago hospital will soon launch an electronic system for registering patients, births and deaths that occur at the hospital. The development...
Health Workers Revealing HIV Status Of Patients
Patients in Kitgum claim that medical workers are disclosing their status to the public and because of this, they travel to neighbouring districts...
Residents ask for Mass TB Screening
At least 650 people were infected with Tuberculosis in Luweero in 2011, Bwogi Luyombya, the District TB and Leprosy Control supervisor has revealed....
Bodaboda Accidents Cost Gov,t 2bn – Study
A new study has revealed that it costs government up to Shs1.5 billion annually in treating injuries resulting from motorcycle or boda...
WAR ON FAKE COSMETICS: Health Ministry asks NDA, UNBS To Tighten Regulation
The Ministry of Health has asked government agencies responsible for regulating skin lightening products to step up surveillance and save...
Gov’t Adopts Option B+ To Reduce Mother- To- Child HIV Transmission
First Lady Janet Museveni, patron of the Uganda Paeditric Association The government of Uganda has adopted the UN World Health...
Rakai Women Cry Out for Intensified Cancer Screening
Women in rural villages of Rakai district are say they desperately need intensified localized screening of both Cervical Cancer and...
M7 Calls For Direct Procurement As Mulago Installs Heart Operation Unit
President Yoweri Museveni President Yoweri Museveni has said government will support Mulago hospital to directly procure urgently needed equipment to...
Mercury Thermometers To Be Phased Out
The ministry of Health in Uganda has indicated that it plans to phase out the use of devices containing mercury....