BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025 On June 11, 2025, the Judiciary took an unprecedented step to close all courts in the West Nile sub region of Uganda, summoning all staff to gather at the Arua High Court premises for HIV counselling and testing. The health camp organized in …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: THURSDAY MAY 22, 2025 The Arua Regional Blood Bank will coordinate blood collection, processing and distribution in West Nile and reduce blood shortages, Dr Diana Steiner, the permanent secretary of the ministry of health has said. The Laboratory is a vital healthcare institution dedicated to …
Read More »HEALTH TOPS THE AGENDA AS FORMER MAYOR CHARLES ASIKI PLOTS A COMEBACK
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025 At the time Charles Asiki became the Mayor in 2006, the then Arua Municipality was a cholera endemic and filthy urban center. Mountains of garbage became permanent features of the town’s landscape, wooden kiosks littered the urban center without corresponding latrines that …
Read More »BARAKALA HEALTH CENTER OPD CONSTRUCTION STANDS STILL
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI YUMBE: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Siraj Baguma, the health center in charge says he is unaware of why funding has dried up, but reliable sources say that the project was not well coordinated between the Yumbe district and the Ministry of health. As such …
Read More »ARUA HOSPITAL ICU IS ABOUT ONE MONTH TO FINISH
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU & MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK ARUA: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Engineers and Manson men at the construction site of the Intensive Care Unit at the Arua hospital are racing to against time to hit a one crucial target. Finishing and handing over of the facility for public use. This …
Read More »MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPGRADES INFRASTRUCTURE AT PADIBE HEALTH IV IN LAMWO DISTRICT
By Goodluck Musinguzi Padibe Health Centre IV in Lamwo District has received improved infrastructure upgrades from Ministry of Health and other partners in a bid to support health services both for locals and refugees from South Sudan. Photo: Signpost for Padibe HC IV before entering the facility Dr Diana Atwine, …
Read More »ARUA CITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM AIMS FOR IMPROVED HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, DEVELOPMENT AFTER INDUCTION
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND �������� GOODLUCK ��������� MUSINGUZI ARUA CITY: FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025 The Health sector is under the social services thematic working group and the forum will develop a working group plan to scrutinize sector. “We aim for improved service delivery in the health sector where people are …
Read More »ARUA HEALTH OFFICIAL URGES RESIDENTS TO STICK TO MALARIA VACCINATION SCHEDULE
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU & MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025 Given the challenge of high rate of morbidity and mortality due to malaria, a health official has appealed to the public to stick to the schedule for vaccination. “The vaccine does not completely prevent malaria but it can prevent severe …
Read More »COVID-19 RESPONSE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNDING CHANGING THE HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE IN WEST NILE
A section of the emergence call and dispatch center in Arua BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK Monday, January 20, 2025 When the Ministry of Health of Uganda took a bold step to stop importation of Covid-19 …
Read More »OUT OF SEVERE ILLNESS, A CHURCH WAS BORN IN DRC
Flavia Candiru, the head of FAVOUR Prayer Church, Ozoo Pedele …
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