Browsing by Author "Ainebyoona, Emmanuel"

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    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
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    Bridge Schools won't open, says ministry
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-02-05) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Mr. Alex Kakooza, has said Bridge International Academies will not be allowed to open for the first term today because they are not licensed.
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    Butabika creates new unit for UPDF soldiers
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-07-17) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel; Nakato, Tausi
    Soldiers who open fire at public places to randomly kill people are those suffering from depression, post-war trauma and stress, the UPDF chief of medical services has said.
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    CAA upset over Uganda's negative air safety ratinf
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-10) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has rejected a critical United Nations report on safety standards
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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,
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    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.
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    Drugs authority closes more 14 pharmacies over licences
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-05-01) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The National Drug Authority (NDA) has closed 14 more pharmacies countrywide for operating without 2018 licences.
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    Experts caution on new oral HIV self-testing kit
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-07-19) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The plan by government to introduce an Oral HIV/Aids self -testing kit has provoked a mixed bag of reactions from counselling experts, issuing warnings about its application in homes.
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    Exposure to volcanic soils may cause elephantiasis- study
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-04-24) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel; Fednand Tuhame
    Edith Twamusilma a middle aged woman from Kyabatooma village in Kamwenge district says she lost her marriage due podoconiosis, a non infection type of elephantiasis.
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    Fake anti-cancer drugs flood market- NDA
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-10) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The National Drug Authority (NDA) has issues an alert over two counterfeit anti-cancer drugs on the market and has arrested a hawker found selling them near the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI)at Mulago hospital in Kampala.
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    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.
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    Go back to work, govt tells doctors.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-09) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    Health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has asked striking doctors to return to work immediately as government addresses their issues. The doctors under their umbrella body Uganda Medical Association (UMA), laid down their tools on Monday after government failed to respond to their demands,
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    Government mechanical workshop rotting away
    (Sunday Monitor, 2017-07-16) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    A multi-billion government centralized infrastructural facility that was meant to repair and maintaining government vehicles and motorcycles, among other things, has been abandoned, and as a result of mismanagement and lack of funding, the facility is rotting away.
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    Government rules out ebola outbreak.
    (daily monitor, 2018-05-28) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The ministry of health yesterday dismissed reports of an ebola outbreak in the country that a patient in mubende district died of the crimean congo hemorrhagic fever.
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    Government to buy new drug for sickle cell anaemia
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-03-01) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The Minister of Health Dr. Ruth 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
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    Government to introduce oral HIV self-test kit
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-07-18) Ainebyoona, Emmanuel
    The ministry of Health is considering introducing an oral HIV self-test kit it hopes will prompt men to establish their HIV/Aids status.
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    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.