Tag Archives: Ministry of Health

BY OKELLO JESUS OJARA AMURU: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2022 Amuru district has vaccinated 55,766 children during the recently concluded three days Polio mass vaccination exercise. According to the District Health Officer, Dr Patrick Odong Olwedo, the exercise was successfully completed with a huge turn up by the local communities and …

BY VAN DEGURAS NTUNGAMO: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2022 The campaign that will take three days is set to kick off on Friday January 14 to 16, 2022 apart from Ngoma and Rwentobo sub-counties where vaccination will be from Monday Jan 17 and Wednesday January 19. Twesigye Nestelio, the District Health …

BY INNOCENT ATUGANYIRA KIKUUBE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022 Kikuube district in Bunyoro sub region has received 96,500 doses of the oral polio vaccine ahead of the mass vaccination commencing on Friday and ending on Sunday January 16, 2022. Peter Byaruhanga, the District Surveillance Focal Person, said that the vaccination exercise will …

BY TIMOTHY EODU MOROTO: TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022 With bags on their backs, masked school children dressed in green and khaki uniforms thronged to Kasimeri Primary School in Moroto Municipality early on Monday morning. By midday, the school was still full of enrollment activity on the first day of reopening …

BY WALTER KUMIRA GULU: SATURDAY, JANUARY 08, 2022  Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) Groups have been encouraged to use the money they saved to take their children back to school. Betty Ocan Aol, the Woman Member of Parliament for Gulu City, while addressing members of Alot Tero Dano Inyim …

BY WALTER KUMIRA GULU: THURSDAY, JANUARY 06, 2022 Gulu LC5 Chairperson, Christopher Opiyo Ateke, said that the district through the Education Department has given sh450,000 to each of the 49 government aided Primary School and sh600,000 to each government aided Secondary school for slashing their school compound and cleaning classrooms. …

BY GORRET KAJUMBA KABAROLE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 06, 2022 The Kabarole District Covid-19 task force has resolved not to allow an non-vaccinated teaching and non-teaching staff in schools when they reopen next week on January 10th. “When our schools reopen on Monday next week, we shall not allow non-vaccinated teachers and …

BY GLADYS LAKAREBER KITGUM: THURSDAY, JANUARY 06, 2022 As learning institutions prepare for the resumption of classes next week, Kitgum prison primary school in Kitgum Town has not stood by. The school is a mixed day primary school with 1,214 pupils before the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country in …

BY ALEX BALUKU KASESE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 05, 2022 A total of 100 nursery school teachers from Mahango, Karusandara, Maliba, Bugoye and the Central Division of Kasese Municipality are at Kamaiba Youth Center undergoing a fresher training ahead of the reopening of schools. Tangu Utoto Foundation, a Non-Government Organization based in …

BY CHRIS FRANK HOIMA: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 05, 2022 There were long queues at some health facilities in Hoima City as strict regulations for travelers and reopening of schools announced by the government have compelled people to get vaccinated. The police at the beginning of this week announced that all travelers …