Department of Public Health

Permanent URI for this collection

https://bdears.busitema.ac.ug/handle/123456789/349

Browse

Browsing Department of Public Health by Author "Ainebyoona, Emmanuel"

Now showing 1 - 20 of 24
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Arrested health worker a quack- State House.
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-09-17) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    One of the suspects who was arrested to Naguru-China Friendship Hospital after asking the State Minister for Health, Ms. Sarah Opendi, for a bribe, has been masquerading as a laboratory technologist for six years without any qualifications. Andrew Kalule was arrested after he asked Ms. Opendi for Shs150,000 to perform tests recommended by the doctor
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Cancer machine ready, awaits commissioning.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-01) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The long-awaited cancer machine has finally been installed but users will have to wait a little longer as government organizes its official commissioning. Despite Health minister Jane Aceng indicating that the machine will be ready this month, Daily Monitor understands that the new cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine might only become accessible to patients early next year.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Caretaker of Marburg patient goes into hiding
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-23) Chemitai, Joyce; Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The task force helping to fight Marburg spread in Kween district, has asked police to hunt for Joseph Cherungu, an adult of Kamwam Village, who has reportedly been one of the key caretakers of the last Marburg victim.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Doctors announce strike, list demands
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-11) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Demands. The doctors want enhanced allowances, including for overtime, housing, transport, medical risk and retention.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Doctors threaten to strike beginning October 9
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-09-21) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Doctors under their umbrella Uganda Medical Association (UMA) have given government up to October 9 to address their grievances or witness industrial action that will shut down all public hospitals and health centres. The doctors cited a myriad of issues,
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Doctors' strike:
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-08) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel; Namagembe, Lilian; Kisekka, Christopher; Ssenkabirwa, Al-mahdi; Ssekandi, Paul; Muron, George; Mugerwa, Francis; Muhereza, Robert; Atuhaire, Scovia; Makumbi, Cissy
    As the doctors' strike enters its second day countrywide, one death has been registered at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital after the patient failed to get assistance upon arrival at the facility as a result of the industrial action.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Fake Cancer Drugs flood market- Medics
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-02-02) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Doctors at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) have said unscrupulous people are duping patients into buying herbs they claim cure cancer.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Government to meet doctors over salary demands
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-13) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Doctors under their umbrella, Uganda Medical Association will tomorrow meet the Health Ministry officials to explain their demands, a few days after they voted to go on strike early next month.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Govt moves to manage deprssion in HIV cases.
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-11-05) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Government through the Medical Research Institute (UVRI) has launched a study to develop a model for integrating depression management into HIV care for adults at health facilities. Depression is common among people living with HIV, with MRC and UVRI indicating that eight to 30 per cent of persons living with HIV in Africa have a depressive disorder.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Govt names best, worst hospitals.
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-10-01) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Government has ranked Mbale Regional Referral Hospital as the best performer for the second year in a row after it registered the best health service deliverables, known as standard unit outputs. Mbale was ranked the best performing hospital in terms of patient volumes,
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Govt to buy new drugs for sickle cell anaemia.
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-03-01) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The Minister of health, Dr. Jane Aceng, has directed the National Drug Authority to register hydroxyurea as a treatment for sickle cell anaemia in a move to increase the drug's availability and accessibility. The drug that was developed to treat leukemia was also found to be effective in the management of sickle cell anaemia as it reduces occurrence of painful crises. It has been in use in US and Europe to manage sickle cell patients.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Govt to roll out self-injectable contraceptives.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-09-27) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Health minister Dr. Jane Aceng has announced plans to roll out self-injectable contraceptive age have a wider choice of birth control options. Dr. Aceng, while presiding over the opening of the 2nd Uganda National Conference on Family Planning in Kampala yesterday, said
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Health services:
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-02) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Government has named the best and worst performing districts in the country in term of health service delivery during last financial year 2016/17, ranking Adjumani district in West Nile region as the best and Karamoja's Amudat as the worst.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    High blood pressure more prevalent among men- study.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-20) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    One in every four Ugandan adults has an altered heart function in form of raised blood pressure (BP), a new study has revealed. The report, which is yet to be officially released by the Ministry of Health, also shows that raised blood pressure is more prevalent among males,
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    How treated bed net solved East Africa's malaria puzzle.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-31) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel; Buguzi, Syriacus; Omboki, Aggrey
    On the beaches of Zanzibar, where the waters of the Indian Ocean kiss sandy landings all day and night, malaria is on the way out, almost eliminated through years of research, sensitisation and vector control via, primarily, the bed net.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Kidney failure:
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-06) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    A patient has dragged St Francis hospital Nsambya to the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council, accusing the hospital of negligence and abandoning her to over-bleed and suffer Kidney failure. Ms. Kyomuhendo Hellen, 27, through her lawyers Daniel, Mugisha & Co Advocates, petitioned the medical council to investigate
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Marburg outbreak: Ministry monitoring 41 contacts
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-20) Chemitai, Joyce; Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Marburg virus Disease is caused by the Marburg Virus, a rare but severe type of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, which affects both human and non-human primates such as Monkeys and baboons.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    New ear surgery centre to offer hearing implants.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-06) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Ugandans will no longer travel aboard to fix severe hearing impairment following the launch of the MED-EL hearing implant programme. The hearing restoration service will be provided by Kampala Audiology and Speech Centre (KASC), in partnership with MED-EL, an Austria based global leader in implantable hearing solutions.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    New study names Marburg, Ebola hotspots in Uganda.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-25) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    As the country battles an outbreak of Marburg in the eastern district of Kween, a new study has named parts of the country that are at risk of registering Marburg and Ebola outbreaks. Published in Plos, a california based research Journal on September 5,
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Officals fail to account for nodding disease funds.
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-03-06) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The health minister, Dr. Jane Aceng, has said government officials in districts affected by Nodding Syndrome have failed to account for more than Shs237m meant to fight the disease. Dr. Aceng, who was responding to the revelations made by an NTV investigation last month, said government interventions had faced accountability challenges caused by the local officials, mainly chief administrative officers (CAOs).