Day: May 9, 2022

The National Drug Authority has conducted operation on herbalists who are selling unregistered drugs and illegally advertising using Bizindalo, the operations were conducted in Busega, Kalerwe and Wandegeya in Kampala and Nansana in Wakiso distric Abiaz Rwamwiri, the NDA Head of Public Relations said that its illegal to promote drugs that have not been verified by NDA a thing that is contrary with section 33 of the NDA Policy and Authority Act which requires anyone that is going to promote drugs, their information to have been verified by NDA to protect the public from misleading drug promotion messages. Section 33 (1)(c) of the National Drug Policy and Authority Act, Cap 206 prohibits the advertisement and publication of information that is calculated to promote the use of a drug for pr...

The UK Government - through UNICEF - has procured a Pressure Swing Absorption Oxygen Plant in Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital, to increase the oxygen producing capacity of the 200-bed facility and other lower-level facilities in seven neighbouring districts in central Uganda. The Oxygen plant installed by UNICEF in February 2022 was today unveiled and officially launched by the Ministry of Health. Globally and in Uganda, the demand for oxygen sharply increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, far exceeding the capacity of oxygen generated in many referral hospitals. The scarcity led to loss of lives of critically ill patients who depended on oxygen therapy daily to stay alive. Moreover, oxygen remained a critical treatment for small and sick new-born, children with severe pneumonia and ot...