Achola and her daughter have been receiving treatment at Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital and were recently transferred to Mulago National Hospital for further care.
The school located within Namanve Industrial Park, currently accommodates over 1,000 learners but it is struggling with limited space, which affects the learning environment.
The ongoing pilot campaign intends to trace the families of the affected children and have them reunited. Children whose families are untraceable will be handed over to foster families and approved homes. Butanda says they have so far identified about 200 foster parents in the country who are willing to take care of such children.
Mercury is a highly toxic substance that poses significant health risks to miners and those in direct contact with it, especially when vapourised. The contamination extends to soil, water, air, and mining equipment, contributing to long-term environmental degradation.
In December 2021, the MoH committed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, pledging to conduct a comprehensive national health climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for the development of H-NAP.
Engineer Silver Mugisha, the NWSC Managing Director, made the request in a meeting with Thomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, during his monitoring visit to the Katosi Water Treatment Plant.
“The church will not allow this, it is against our norms, practices, and culture but also the law in Uganda forbids sex among people below the age of eighteen years. Their proposal leaves a question as to whether the age was lowered from the current 18 years to 15 years. Children should be taught to abstain.” Dr. Kaziimba emphasized.
45 students graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery and nine students with a Bachelor's Degree in Dental Surgery. They were among the 1002 students who received their degrees on Friday at the University's 24th graduation ceremony.
Stillbirth is fatal death that occurs at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy. Mukono Hospital Medical Superintendent, Geoffrey Kasirye told the legislators that every month on average, the facility registers between 20 fresh stillbirth cases.
Edward Mukiibi, the President of Slow Food International and Executive Director of Slow Food Uganda, emphasized that the campaign aims to celebrate and promote diversity in food culture while supporting small-scale agroecological producers who rely on traditional knowledge to grow and harvest unique ingredients that have been passed down through generations.
According to Dr. Simon Peter Nsingo, the Medical Director at Mukono Church of Uganda hospital, the deceased had been sick for a long time, suffering from a neurodegenerative disease that was complicated a week ago with severe hypostatic pneumonia.
The Commissioner for Government Secondary Schools Sam Kuloba says many schools are suffering from erosion, people are displaced by natural disasters while extreme weather events make access to education very difficult.
According to the complaints, the doctors ask for between 100,000 to 300,000 for all major surgeries and between 400,000 to 1 Million Shillings for a Caesarian section. Last year, the facility registered 8, 000 deliveries out of which 1, 600 were C-sections.
Geoffrey Lwanga, the LCI Chairperson of Mulago Cell where the facility is located says that the hospital management should construct a separate private wing due to congestion.
Rose Nassali, Chairperson for the Principals of Health Training Institutions in Uganda, notes that the registration process was made easier since it can be done online. But the challenge is that many graduates wait until when they want to upgrade or get job opportunities and then rush for registration.
In his letter, Kabanda accused the contractor of charging exorbitant fees, failing to manage garbage on the streets, working with the local garbage collectors, and declining to collect garbage from residents with ready cash.
The Officer in Charge of Homicide Department at Mukono Police Division, Christopher Oneni headed officers who visited and profiled the scene, retrieved the body before taking it to Kawolo hospital for a postmortem.
