Browsing by Author "Editorial"

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    Access to safe water is critical
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-03-23) Editorial
    Unless the population is sensitised to appreciate the benefits of protecting the environment, Uganda will continue to suffer harm associated with unsafe water.
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    Basic hygiene should be taught and given.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-09-26) Editorial
    Yesterday, this newspaper had a shocking headline titled, Ugandans die for being dirty, says Mulago boss'. Mulago National Referral Hospital's executive director Baterana Byarugaba in an interview stated that many of the country's citizens are dying needlessly because they are dirty.
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    Cancer- causing creams: Inaction will kill us all.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-09-06) Editorial
    The issue: contraband creams Our view: We demand a sting government operation to arrest ,prosecute and deport the outlaws dealing in the contraband.
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    Check your role in tree cutting and take action.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-28) Editorial
    Two years ago, environmental activists appealed to parliament to investigate the delay in the operation alisation of tree fund. under a section 40 of the National Forestry and the Tree Planting Act. which was enacted by parliament in 2003, government is mandated to establish a tree fund to provide support for promoting tree planting and growing in the country.
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    Chopper for heart patients good idea
    (Saturday Vision, 2017-07-08) Editorial
    The Uganda Heart Institute has asked government to provide it with two helicopters to deal with emergencies. The heart institute's director, John Omagino, says the country has only one catheterisation laboratory in Mulago, yet there are many people with heart complications in many parts of the country.
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    Deal with causes of child marriage.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-22) Editorial
    The issue: Underage marriage Our view: Having more girls get a decent education leads to fewer unwanted pregnancies, better lives for children born and a more productive economy.
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    Do more to curb doctors' brain drain
    (New Vision, 2018-01-19) Editorial
    Uganda medical & dental practitioners Council (UMDPC) reports that in the last five years almost 700 doctors have got clearance to leave the country to work abroad.
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    Donate blood and save lives.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-01-21) Editorial
    On Thursday, We reported about the blood shortage Uganda(see Daily Monitor of January 19, Blood shortage hits health facilities.
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    Education ministry needs to control school fees hike
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-02-06) Editorial
    As the school year opens, there is no good news for the parents as schools defy the authorities to hike school fees and requirements. While the ministry of Education has made its position clear by directing that schools should not increase fees or demand non cash school requirements, the schools remain adamant and parents have no choice but to comply.
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    Ensure lab technicians' safety to curb disease
    (Saturday Monitor, 2017-10-17) Editorial
    The National Laboratory Biorisk Management audit report 2017, that was released recently, has shown that medical laboratories in the country are exposing health workers to terminal infectious agents from clinical specimens they handle. They later on transmit these infections to patients and the community due to lack of protective gear.
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    Global health security meet must work for all.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-25) Editorial
    Top scientists, academics and Health ministers or equivalents from around the world will this morning begin intense conversations in Kampala on how to guarantee global health security. The theme of the three-day symposium is: 'Security for all: Engaging communities, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector'.
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    Government must build on the heart institute's success
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-01-25) Editorial
    Government needs to rise to the challenge and build on what the institute achieved on monday by providing it with the kind of equipment that it requires to perform at the very highest of levels.
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    Government should improve health workers welfare.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-09-08) Editorial
    This paper yesterday carried a story that many health workers deployed to rural health centres in the districts of Ntungamo, Mbarar, Sheema and Kabale have difficulty getting a roof over their heads.
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    Government should prioritise investing in agriculture.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-29) Editorial
    Last saturday, Monitor Publications Ltd held it's seventh seeds of gold farm clinic. The location was Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute, Kabanyolo.
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    Government should protect Lubigi Wetland
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-02-26) Editorial
    Although the ministerial order is targeting Lubigi wetland encroachers alone for now, we think it would be wise for the ministry to issue similar orders to other encroachers.
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    Government should take action on wetland encroachers.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-08-25) Editorial
    Many areas in Uganda are already bearing the burden of environmental degradation. it is therefore no wonder that leaders in Kanungu district which is facing food shortage have decried this vice.
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    Govt ban of nursery homework timely.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-11-10) Editorial
    Government on Wednesday directed that pre-primary schools should stop handing homework and tests to nursery school-going children and ordered schools not to use entry interviews to select those joining Primary one. This unequivocal directive was issued during the Education Sector Review that stated more less the obvious that pre-primary,
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    Govt should curb blood shortage.
    (Daily Monitor, 2017-10-19) Editorial
    The revelation that eight people in Fort Portal, Kabarole district and two children in Moroto district have died as a result of blood shortage is only disheartening, but also scary. The Kabarole district health officer, Dr. Richard Mugahi, attributed the blood shortage at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital to closure of schools whose students are major donors.
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    HIV spread down, more is still needed.
    (Saturday Vision, 2017-08-19) Editorial
    The ministry of Health has just released results of the Uganda HIV Impact Assessment which show that the percentage of Ugandans living with HIV (prevalence) has dropped from 7.3% to 6%. This was predictable after Uganda achieved the tipping point in 2015,
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    Let all stakeholders work to end child marriages
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-02-09) Editorial
    Uganda ranks 17th internationally among countries that have the highest rates of child marriages, according to a report titled State of The World's Children, 2016 by United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).