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French hospital health worker goes on hunger strike over state imposed mandatory vaccination.

Thierry paysant a French security and firefighter worker at the Pasteur hospital has gone on a hunger strike protesting France’s restrictions including compulsory health passes to fight the corona virus disease pandemic.... Read more »
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Uganda, neighbouring African countries record a decrease in covid cases

The National Planning Authority (NPA) has recorded a reduction of covid cases having seen a slight increase in the number of daily new reported COVID-19 cases in the past 2 weeks. According... Read more »
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Dr. Atwine calls for automation, digitization and setting of new performance targets within the health sector.

The Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Health-Dr.Diana Atwine on Monday afternoon met with the team from Integrated Intelligent Computer System(IICS) that is implementing the automative intergrated Health Monitoring System (iHMIS). The team, led by... Read more »
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IICS to train two ICT teams to run the newly established Hospital Management System

A team of twenty two (22) Information Technology scientists has been dispatched to conduct both fresh and refresher training for the Hospital Management System (iHMIS). Dr. Kiyingi Silver, The Principal Investigator of... Read more »
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“Our vaccines are safe”. Ministry of Health reassures Ugandans

The senior public relations officer form the Ministry of Health Emmanuel Ainebyoona has reassured the general public not to worry over the AstraZeneca vaccine shelf life after rounds on social media circulating... Read more »
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Government introduces E-Government project to ease health workers’ record management, curb theft and truck expiry of drugs.

The Integrated Health Facility Managemnet System, a Government of Uganda initiative health monitoring system is part of the E-Government program whose implementation will improve services in the health sector. The remarks were... Read more »
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NPA projects slight increase in covid cases in the next two weeks with a weekly average of 1,403 cases.

The National Planning Authority has projected a slight increase of covid cases in Uganda. Speaking to press on Tuesday about the Covid-19 projections, Eng. Muwanguzi J.B Abraham, the manager Science Planning Department... Read more »
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Kenya receives second Covid19 vaccine Batch, set to vaccinate 10 million citizens by end of year.

Kenya on Monday received a batch of 880,000 doses of Moderna vaccine from the United States bringing the total of Vaccines revived by the Kenyan health ministry to 5146710. 141600 doses of... Read more »
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Mandatory Covid19 testing for foreign travellers in Ugands halted

on Thursday, an inter-ministerial committee engaged with several stakeholders and it was agreed that the testing that would have started today be suspended for two weeks. As part of the directive, despite... Read more »
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First batch of 51 Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda

Uganda has today revived the first batch of Afghanistan refugees who fled the country after the Taliban take over a few weeks ago. 51 refugees have been brought in according to a... Read more »