Day: September 29, 2022

President Yoweri Museveni has ruled out any possibility of a lockdown due to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. While delivering his address last evening, Museveni said that it was not necessary to have a lockdown or closure of schools, giving assurance that the government has the capacity to control the spread of this virus. “It is not necessary to have lockdowns. We just need to take care of a few things,” Museveni said. He added, “We can fight this #Ebola virus more easily than COVID-19 because it does not spread through the air.” Despite noting that there are 24 cumulative confirmed cases and five confirmed deaths in the country, the president said that the biggest weapon against #Ebola is washing hands and not touching soft parts (eyes, mouth, and nose). He urge...

The government through the Ministry of Health has donated an ambulance boat to the people Koome Island in Mukono district worthy 600 million Uganda shillings; This donation is a presidential pledge in the 2016 general presidential campaigns, and it’s geared to improve health services easing transportation of the ill people leaving in the seventeen islands that make Koome Sub County. The residents at Koome Island showed us the only dilapidated water ambulance that has been transporting their patients to the main land, they said that they have been risking because at the island the medical services are not sustaining. Mukono Health Director Stephen Mulindwa, said the island has only one health center III which does not have a specialist surgeon to handle caesarian cases and they receive 20 p...

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has directed Hoima Sugar Limited to restore degraded parts of the Kikuube mixed land-use project area. It should be remembered that NEMA issued the company an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) certificate on August 14, 2020, to implement the above project, under specific conditions. Accordingly, the components of the project included; a sugarcane plantation (9.24 square miles, an urban centre, an eco-tourism centre, a cultural site and the natural reserved forest and nature walkways/trails. However, NEMA says that following the review of the Audit report in June 2022 and its further investigations including ground inspections in September 2022, it has been established there was deforestation of the natural reserved forest...

President of the republic of Uganda His Excellency Yoweri Kagutta Museveni yesterday during his state of national address at state lodge entebbe said he last ate rice in 1978 as he had gone to fight the then so called dictator (Amin Dada) who was later forced into exile in 1979 and ended his regime, President Museveni went ahead and said he last ate bread 15years ago. Museveni said this while in his state of national address yesterday about Ebola. Museveni emphasized all Ugandans to keep calm as the state is doing its best to curb the virus.