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Uganda declares end of Ebola after 4-month outbreak The country discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital in December 2022 and has passed WHO’s 42-day timeline. Uganda has declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak it struggled briefly to contain but was then able to swiftly bring …
Read More »Leaders, Security agencies turn to Inter-District security coordination meetings between Karamoja districts with neighbours
20th/ Dec. 2022 By Timothy Eodu-Karamoja Leaders from Karamoja in conjunction with the joint security forces have turned focus to inter-district reconciliation meetings to sort out grievances with most affected neighbouring districts. According to Ms Betty Okello Otekat the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Amudat says such meetings are good for …
Read More »DR TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS COMMENDS WHO PARTNERS FOR SWIFT COLLABORATION OVER VACCINES AGAINST THE SUDAN EBOLA VIRUS
By Goodluck Musinguzi- Kampala The Ministry of Health has received 1200 doses belonging to one of the three candidate vaccines against the Sudan Ebola Virus that will be used in a campaign dumbed Tokomeza Ebola Vaccine trial in Uganda. The Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom …
Read More »Pallisa DHO calls on hepatitis B vigilance
By Lawrence Okwakol-PallisaThe Pallisa district health officer Dr. Godfrey Mulekwa has challenged people to mind about themselves and carry out various health tests especially for Hepatitis B among others.Mulekwa gave the tip while addressing media on health matters of the district at the district headquarters on Monday, 5th Decemeber, 2022. …
Read More »Parents blamed, youths cry out at Karamoja youth camp
By Edward Akaki – MorotoA section of leaders of Moroto district have blamed the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the district and region at large to laxity by some parents who do not teach their children good morals or leave them to learn from others.This was during the launch …
Read More »Hundreds get free eye care treatment in Katakwi
By Edward AkakiA team of ophthamologists from Pakistan are in Katakwi district to perform eye surgeries and attend to other medical conditions in the Teso sub region. Around 600 eye surgeries will be done for free by the end of the Four-Day medical camp organised by Vice President Jessica Alupo …
Read More »IRAN PROTESTS: IS IT THE BEGINNING IN FALL OF IRANIAN REGIME?.
By Our CorrespondentA conference organised in the Italian Senate on November 29th, 2022 titled “Iran protests :is it the beginning of the fall of the regime” by EPP group in the European Union (EU) parliament and head of Forza Italia Mep Martusciello together with Members of Parliament Rubano and Patriarca …
Read More »Ministry of health delivers on the promise of CT scanners to regional referral hospitals.
By Edward Akaki – KaramojaIn 2021, the government through the Ministry of Health revealed that they had finalized the planning and funding for the installation of Computed Tomography (CT) Scan machines in all the fourteen regional referral hospitals in the country. The project that was slated for the previous year …
Read More »Moroto leaders have vow to take action against the NRM government if they are not given city status come 2023.
By Augustine OluleAs Karamoja region remains the only region in Uganda without a city, the leaders from Moroto Municipality the proposed city to be have asked President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to fulfill his pledge of upgrading Moroto Municipality into a city come 2023.Muhammad Ismail the mayor of Moroto Municipality says …
Read More »Ministers and Ambassadors adopt the Wuhan Declaration
Shared by Dr. Musonda Mumba Today, ministers and ambassadors from Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands adopted the Wuhan Declaration.During the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) on 6 November 2022, ministers and ambassadors of Contracting Parties adopted the Wuhan Declaration – a statement …
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