Your Preferred Source of Breaking News
The ministry of Health through officials at Mulago have expressed their disgust towards what they claim is a deliberate effort to blackmail the health sector, demoralise the health workers and cause discontent amongst the public. This followed a series of publications by one of the leading Dailies about the sector
Read More
Uganda's Covid-19 death toll has hit 15, the Ministry of Health has announced. According to a statement by the Ministry, "The two are both Uganda males aged 63 and 33 years old." The two had been admitted at Rubaga hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with Covid19." With the growing number of deaths,
Read More
The Ministry of Health has confirmed one more death today bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths to 5. The deceased is a 46-year-old female of Indian origin and resident of Kibuli. The deceased presented signs of COVID at Kibuli Muslim Hospital on August 1. The team at Kibuli referred her
Read More
In light of what has become obvious that schools won't be opening for the second term, the Ministry of Finance has directed all accounting officers and local governments to refund funds that were transferred to government-aided schools as capitation grant for the second term. According to a July 22 circular seen
Read More
Uganda has registered her first Covid-19, the Ministry of Health has announced. The Director General of Health Services Dr Henry Mwebesa made the announcement this Thursday evening saying that the deceased was a 34-year-old woman resident of Namisindwa District She presented with COVID like signs and symptoms: fever, dry cough, headache and
Read More
Headteachers of government-funded schools and owners of private schools have met to consolidate their negotiations to convince the government to partially re-open education institutions. Meeting last week, the headteachers of government schools under their Association of Secondary School Headteachers of Uganda (ASSHU) agreed with their private school counterparts the Federation of
Read More
With more than 15 million students seated at home due to the virus-induced Lockdown, The Ministry of Health has set tough measures requiring primary education institutions to have at most 10 pupils per classroom and only 15 students for secondary schools, tertiary institutions and universities, before they can reopen. In a
Read More
With about 15milion students out of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ministry of education has spoken out on re-opening of schools amid the prevailing conditions of Covid-19 in Uganda. "The Ministry of Education and Sports has received Sector-specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) from the Ministry of Health to guide
Read More
The government of Uganda has halted arrangements to repatriate Ugandans who are stuck in foreign nations due to travel restrictions occasioned by Covid19. Uganda has been bringing home a number of her citizens over the past weeks, but now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reportedly directed all Ugandan Missions to
Read More
A nurse and also victim of Covid-19 who on behalf of other patients recorded a video exposing the sorry state of an isolation ward at Masaka regional referral hospital is under investigation by police in Masaka. The Covid-19 task force together with Security authorities in Masaka District said they have already
Read More