Tag Archives: Dr Diana Atwine

By Goodluck Musinguzi Kawempe National Women’s Hospital is one of the busiest in Uganda delivering between 100-120 children per day, with an average of 4o caesarian per day. Health workers at this facility don’t have the luxury of resting like in other places, they have to be on standby to …

By Goodluck Musinguzi The clinical Mentorship Program by the Ministry of Health has targeted close to 1300 health workers spread to 150 health facilities in the Karamoja sub-region. The overall goal is to improve health workers’ clinical skills that allow for the enhanced provision and utilization of essential reproductive, maternal, …

By Goodluck Musinguzi Seven Consultant NGO/CSO implementing mentorship programs in Uganda’s Health Sector have presented their progress reports on the Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and Adolescent Health(RMNCAH) done in different regions to the Ministry of Health in Kampala. The improvement in health service delivery has more than doubled in the …

By Goodluck Musinguzi Ministry of Health will support Health facilities in Napak district with shs3.516,936,626 billion by the end of June 2022. This money will go to Health wage conditional grant, Non-Conditional Grant, Primary Health Care, Hospital Non-wage recurrent, health development conditional grant, and health development formula and performance. Napak …

By Goodluck Musinguzi More than 5,525 children were delivered in health facilities in Karamoja region in financial year 2020/2021 at 33,712 children compared to 28,187 children in the year 2019/2020 according to Ministry of Health. Unfortunately, maternal death increased from 24 in 2019/2020 to 28 in financial year 2020/2021. Dr …

By Goodluck Musinguzi Ministry of Health has launched the Covid19 vaccination campaigns in the different sub-regions of Uganda targeting district leaders to further energize them and to pick their feedback on the ongoing vaccination exercise. Dr. Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health launched the campaign of Greater Kampala in …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND JOHNISANI OCAKACON KAMPALA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021 When health minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, took an AstraZeneca jab on her left arm in front of cameras, her over riding aim was to assure the people that the vaccine was safe. That was at Mulago hospital on …

By Goodluck Musinguzi Uganda’s Ministry of Health is set to receive its first consignment of almost 200,000 dozes of the Johnson & Johnson Covid19 vaccines at 10:30 pm at Entebbe Airport. It’s the first time, Uganda receives vaccines bought with its own money under Africa Vaccine Acquisition Trust Mechanism (AVAT) under …

By Goodluck Musinguzi According to AfricaCDCCovid.org, the Covid19 Africa Hotspot Dashboard shows the status of countries using data that is generated weekly. Two African countries stand out in Gray color which is Warning Level Zero (0) because there is no available data, they are Cameroon and Tanzania our immediate neighbors …

  BY ISMAIL BATEGEKA In abide to fight against the deadly corona virus pandemic, Entebbe regional referral hospital has received medical equipments worth shs 25millions from Medical Research Council (MRC) The equipment include 30 oxygen cylinders, 80 patient beds with mattresses and drip stands and 21 patient monitors. Dr Mosses …