Health

The Ministry of Health has promised to include palliative care health workers on the government payroll. The Commissioner Clinical Services, Dr.Jacinto Amandwa says palliative care services are key in managing life threatening illnesses. Dr.Amandwa adds that they also have plans of incorporating the palliative care syllabus into the mainstream health […]

A ten-day-old baby boy died after being gnawed by rats in a hospital’s neo-natal intensive care unit in the Indian City of Guntur. His parents claim rodents chewed the sick infant’s left eye, face, chest and hands after climbing into his incubator. His distraught mother Chavali Lakshmi accused doctors of […]

The country is set to host a milk exhibition under a new collaboration between Uganda Tourism Board and Uganda National Museum and the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. During a visit of MrRahaelSchwere, a Swiss anthropologist, the board chairman UTB and also director  of Igongo Cultural centre located […]

The Democratic Alliance has rejected applications from a splinter group created by the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. DP president Norbert Mao, who is also a member of the Alliance says only seven political parties and two pressure groups which were already in existence before Lukwago formed his group will be […]

The Ministry of Health is asked to enroll newly diagnosed HIV patients on anti-retroviral therapy upon testing positive to increase the number of people accessing treatment. The current World Health Organisation and Ministry of Health guidelines require someone who tests positive to wait for their CD4 cell count to go […]