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Item Mulago releases 10 brain surgery patients.(Saturday Monitor, 2017-09-16) Ainebyoona, EmmanuelPatients who underwent brain and spinal surgeries at Mulago Hospital have been discharged.Item A couple's anguish of suffering a miscarriage.(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-17) Muwulya, MosesWhen my wife Rhodah Namubiru, 27, conceived early this year, delight is what filled us as a couple. After our second child succumbed to retinoblastoma (eye cancer) in September 2015, we were left in distress and looked forward to having another child.Item Mulago stuck with unknown patients.(Sunday Monitor, 2017-09-10) Ainebyoona, EmmanuelKampala. Mulago National Referral Hospital is stuck with two "un known patients" brought by the police while unconscious and with no identification documents.Item Barclays aided CIPLAQCIL start manufacture of drugs.(New Vision, 2017-09-04) Mutegeki, GeoffreyMalaria and HIV/AIDS are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in Uganda at a rate 478 cases per 1,000 people and 230 registered new infections per day respectively. This is what inspired the proprietors of quality Chemicals industries Limited (CIPLAQCIL) to venture into manufacturing medicines that would positively change the situation.Item Cancer machine shipped, says government.(New Vision, 2017-07-02) Semakula, JohnThe long awaited new cancer radiotherapy machine has now been shipped, according to the government. The Minister of state for Primary Healthcare, Joyce Moriku Kaducu, told Parliament on Thursday that the machine was last week shipped from the manufacturer.Item For better, for worse: The Bongos tell of triumph over brain tumour.(Daily Monitor, 2017-08-17) Oluka, EstherEddy Owera Bongo and his wife Doreen(Right) say their lives have never been the same after Eddy's Tumor.Item Reusable sanitary pads: Wash, dry and reuse.(Daily Monitor, 2017-01-23) Oluka, EstherBernice Apio was 14 years old when she started menstruation. a normal blood discharge that is part of a woman's monthly cycle.Item Child marriages contributing factor to high young population in Uganda.(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-12) Ntenga, MosesEvery year, the world commemorates the World Population Day and the theme for ths year's celebration is 'Family Planning: Empowering people, developing nations.Item Court allows independent medical examination for Kaweesi murder suspects.(New Vision, 2017-07-25) Kasule, FarooqIn her ruling, the judge said the only way for court to find the truth on the allegations of torture by the accused persons was to subject them to medical examinations by independent doctors.Item Women association, hospital give hope to children with hydrocephalus(Daily Monitor, 2017-08-08) Kolyangha, MudanghaFor the last 20 years, a couple living in the remote village of Butoloi, Kakutu Parish, Bulangira Sub-county in Kibuku District has had three normal children. Mr Peter Kejuka and his wife Ruth Nanzala went on to have a fourth child in the recent past years.Item Clarification on funds released to National Medical stores (NMS) for procurement, storage and distribution of essential Medicines and Health supplies (EMHS)(New Vision, 2017-06-19) National Medical StoresOur attention has been drawn to a press Release by Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development which appeared in the New Vision. The release misleads the General Public into believing that NMS got, and was meant to get, the sh 68 billion from Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development from the PTA Bank as part of the general funding from the Consolidated fund.Item Budaka health centres lack delivery beds.(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-25) Kolyangha, MudanghaEleven out of the 15th health centres providing materials health services in Budaka District have only one delivery bed, Daily Monitor has established.Item Ease travel for treatment abroad, Kadaga tells government.(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-03) Wesonga, NelsonSpeaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has asked government to relax clearance procedures for sick public officials seeking to travel abroad for treatment.Item Sustaining HIV/Aids financing amid other national priorities.(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-21) Musoba, NelsonIf the current efforts in local resource mobilization for HIV/Aids work in Uganda are sustained, the country will very soon be able to provide quality drugs and interventions to all those that need them, making our target of ending HIV/Aids by 2030 achievable.Item Cancer- causing creams, soaps flood markets.(Daily Monitor, 2017-09-05) Ladu, Ismail MusaA range of cosmetic products containing hydroquinone are freely being traded in Kampala shops in spite of an obtaining government ban on their sale due to associated health risk.Item Rising cases of lifestyle diseases worry Wakiso health workers.(Daily Monitor, 2017-09-15) Kabengwa, James; Ssenkabirwa, Al-MahdiAccording to statistics, 25% of Ugandans die from NCDs and the proportion is increasing every year.Item Health workers, police raid bars over tobacco use(Daily Monitor, 2017-08-26) Sabano, JessicaMedical workers in Mukono district have partnered with the environment police to enforce the tobacco control act to protect, especially non smokers from the hazardous consequences of tobacco use and exposure.Item Your diet could cause rectal prolapse.(Daily Monitor, 2017-08-28) Nantume, GillianThe are many causes of rectal prolapse such as poor diet, so making small changes adding fibre to your diet can help prevent construction and may help to reduce its occurence.Item Boy needs sh70m for operation on gullet.(New Vision, 2017-07-17) Murungi, JoanEight year old Jodra Aneyo is in pain. he speaks but cannot eat normally like many of his able- bodied friends because of an accident that left his gullet impaired.Item MPs demand explanation on nodding disease.(New Vision, 2017-07-28) Adyek, JohnParliament has asked the government to explain measures its taking to support victims and families of nodding diseases syndrome.