Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 06 2021
Treatment. Patients wait in queue to get treatment at a Gulu hospital TB ward in 2019. PHOTO/FILE.
Summary
Gulu hospital is a public hospital, funded by the Ministry of Health and the general medical care in the hospital is free. It is also one of the two teaching hospitals of the medical school of Gulu University.
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Some of the specialists recruited at the facility have left.
The hospital is now in dire need of obstetrician-gynaecologist, paediatrician, community health specialists and surgeons.
Dr Florence Oyella, the acting director of Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, yesterday said the facility has only four special grade medical officers.
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Daily Monitor
Sunday December 20 2020
An abandoned homestead formerly home to some South Sudanese refugees at Baroli Settlement Camp in Adjumani District. PHOTO /MARTIN OKUDI
Summary
The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hillary Onek, confirmed that refugees in Uganda are grappling with numerous challenges brought about by what he described as “donor fatigue”.
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At least 200 South Sudanese refugees formerly residing at Boroli Settlement Camp in Pakelle Sub-county in Adjumani District have escaped and returned to their home country.
Ms Kevin Juliet Maia, the refugee welfare council II (RWC II) chairperson of Boroli Refugee Settlement Camp, told Sunday Monitor early this week that refugees who abandoned the settlement complained of starvation brought by the reduction in food ratio by the World Food Programme (WFP), destruction of food crops caused by the recent floods and fear of election-related violence as witnessed by the recent killi
Daily Monitor
Saturday December 19 2020
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Leaders in Arua, Terego and Madi Okollo districts have agreed on how to share Shs11b allocated to them under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development-Additional Funding (USMID-AF) programme.
The leaders signed a memorandum of understanding in Gulu City witnessed by Ms Beti Kamya, the minister of Lands and Mr Mario Kania Obiga, the State minister for Internal Affairs on Wednesday.
It was agreed Terego takes 45 per cent of the money, Madi Okollo (35 per cent) and Arua (20 per cent).
Since last year, leaders in Terego and Madi Okollo were involved in a dispute with Arua over sharing of the funds initially allocated to the latter by Ministry of Lands.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday December 15 2020
Mr Isaac Drajuruga Vuni addressing NRM supporters at Celecelea triangle in Moyo town council on Monday. Standing next to him is the incumbent Moyo LCV chairperson Mr Williams Anyama. PHOTO | MARTIN OKUDI
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The Electoral Commission has distanced itself from a pronouncement made by Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag bearer who reportedly quit the race for Moyo LCV and defected to the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
On Monday, Mr Isaac Drajuruga Vuni, an FDC candidate contesting for the Moyo LCV seat decided to cross to the ruling NRM party and vowed to abandon his campaign trail.