The incident occurred on Friday at around 9:30 pm at a Blue One bar located at Kakoola village in Kakinzi trading center in Luwero district along the Kampala - Gulu highway.
According to Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, the suspects, armed with pangas, attacked the first Fortebet branch, making off with an unspecified amount of money. They then proceeded to another branch at Nateete Business Center with the intent to rob again.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Kitata is a civilian who legally acquired the firearm under existing gun ownership laws. This contradicts earlier reports suggesting the suspect was a member of a security agency.attacked him. However, one of the stray bullets struck Edrine Babalanda, a passenger in a nearby taxi.
Sabiti Barnabas, a 30-year-old boda-boda rider at Kiwatule Muvule stage, has been a long-time friend of Tugume, whom he has been transporting to and from work for many years. Tugume was preparing to close his shop when he was attacked by an assailant intent on robbing him of his cash.
Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the death of 15-year-old student Kiiza Melisa Catherine, whose body was found in one of the razed houses.
In 2012, then High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene (now deceased) found Kizito guilty of manslaughter for the October 24th, 2012 murder of Nsubuga at Kasangombe Village, Kirabira Road in Wakiso District.
Samuel Nkwanga, the LC 1 Chairperson of Wankanya village, promptly alerted the Police upon receiving the information. Upon investigation, the Police recovered the head, hands, and clothes of a child believed to be approximately two years old. Nkwanga expressed the difficulty in identifying the victim, as no missing child had been reported in the area or at the school.
According to Dr. Richard Idro, a Consultant Pediatrician at Mulago National Referral Hospital, they conducted an online survey between the 8th and 15th of December to establish how widespread the infection is.
Patrick Lule, the acting Savannah Regional Police Spokesperson, says that Odama breathed his last at Mulago Specialised National Hospital on Tuesday morning where he has been nursing injuries sustained in the attack.
Eight women and one man have died while five other people sustained serious injuries in a fatal road accident at Sinalya village in Bombo Town Council about 38 kilometers into Luweero district along the Kampala-Gulu Highway.
Kitaka says that the most common cause of diaper rash is when a baby's nappy is not changed often as mothers try to save or are busy at work and yet some diapers contain preservative chemicals that some babies are allergic to.
Recently, Dr Sarah Byakika the Commissioner in Charge of Planning at the Ministry of Health said that Leprosy is still a problem in the country with 50% of the patients reporting Grade 2 Leprosy presenting among persons with disability at the time of the first diagnosis against the 13.8% target rate.
Dr Rosemary Byanyima, the hospital Deputy Executive Director told URN this morning that in the just-concluded surgery where they had to separate conjoined twins that shared a liver, the hospital had to spend up to about 21 million Shillings.
Kiconco is one of the seven people who survived the October 23 explosion that left one person dead, at an eating point in Komamboga, a suburb of Kampala.
Isah Ssemwogerere the Savannah Regional Police Spokesperson says that Police transferred the dead bodies to Mulago hospital for postmortem to establish the cause of the death.
According to hospital administrators, the new plant will produce 70 cubic meters of Oxygen which translates to 70,000 litres per hour or 1,166 litres per minute. With the new plant, the hospital will now be able to produce 4,165 litres of oxygen per minute. Previously, the hospital was producing 2,999 litres.
Sam Onyapidi, a waiter at Munyonyo Resort hotel and resident of Kifumbira Zone in Kamwokya claims that police officers stabbed him in the stomach along Mawanda Road on Sunday night while returning from duty. Onyapidi is in the Intensive Care Unit-ICU at Mulago National Referral Hospital.
The project is an initiative of the Government of India through its India for Humanity programme. The camp is being run by a team of doctors from Jaipur Limbs in India.
Maj. Santo Okot Lapolo, the Gulu Resident District Commissioner (RDC) who also doubles the Head of COVID-19 Task, says the personnel in the unit were reduced following the implementation of the home based care strategy for asymptomatic COVID-9 patients as recommended by the Health Ministry.
For especially children, Dr Sabrina Kitaka a senior paediatrician at the hospital says the reasons for cuts in cases cannot be attributed to COVID-19 alone. She says that at Stanfield ward, for instance, the numbers of inpatients started dropping in June and on Thursday when she visited the ward, there were only three patients.
