Health

by our reporter Dr. Diana Atwiine, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health together with her officials that included the Directors for General and that of Clinical Services, the Scientific Committee and other Experts on the COVID task team, on Friday 8th January 2021 held a meeting attended by the Permanent SecretaryMinistry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and representatives of the Uganda national Cultural Centre (UNCC), the Artists’ Union and Associations.The full list of attendees is attached.This meeting, which took place at the Ministry of Health, was convened toaddress the grievances of the Culture and Creative Artists, who constitute asignificant percentage of the Entertainment Industry, on the matter of theeffect(s) of the continued COVID-19 Lockdown on this subsector. Of ...

Fields of Life is a non-denominational Christian International Development organisation with twenty five years of experience of working in East Africa. We work in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan seeking to work with partners in providing sustainable community development. We seek to communicate the focus and priorities of Fields of Life over the next five years. Some of the activities sofa we have put in place borehole at Adullum primary School is located in the central western region of Uganda in Rakai District where people still have very limited access to safe water. The school, and wider community, were depending on three rainwater harvesting tanks. However, this only provided enough water for one month. After it would run out they...

By our reporte . The demand and price of lemons have shot up across food markets in Kasese and Bunyangabu districts in western Uganda. With the belief by local residents that lemons boost their immunity against the coronavirus (COVID-19), more people are now including lemons on their groceries shopping list.   In Kasese municipality, Shs 2,000 can buy between three and four small lemons. A piece of lemon costs Shs 500 and the case isn’t any different in Rwimi town council in Bunyangabu district, which is already faced with the scarcity of lemons. Previously, Shs 500 would buy 3-5 lemons.   Rose Kemigisha, a vendor outside Kasese main market, says the demand for lemon and ginger is now higher compared to May this year. She says most of her customers bel...

School-going children have expressed mixed reactions about the continued closure of education institutions for non-candidate classes, findings from a study by Makerere University indicate. Although government reopened schools for candidates and finalists last month, non-candidate and non-finalist learners have remained home for over nine months now. In March, President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni ordered education institutions to close their gates for over 15 million learners as a way to prevent the spread of Covid19. President Museveni and health experts reasoned that it would be disastrous if Covid19 broke out in schools because of the congestion in most of them. The closure of these mass concentration institutions, happening even before the country registered its fir...