Whereas the Health ministry is reporting single-digit figures, Mulago hospital deputy director Rosemary Byanyima says they are recording double digit deaths
Daily Monitor
Friday April 09 2021
Health minister Dr Ruth Aceng receives Covid-19 vaccines on March 5 at Entebbe International Airport. The government has lifted restrictions on the importation of the vaccines by private companies. PHOTO/aBUBAKER LUBOWA
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Government has lifted restrictions on the importation of Covid-19 vaccines by private companies but has set tough conditions that must be met.
Allowing private companies to import and carry out vaccination will improve access and uptake of the serum, which the country is looking at to return society to normalcy, curb Covid-19 hospitalisation and deaths, according to Uganda Medical Association.
Addressing journalists at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Kampala yesterday, the Minister of Health, Dr Jane Aceng, said they have been receiving requests from private organisations that want to import the serum but have to fulfil some requirements in order to be given the green light.
Covid-19 cases rise again amid vaccination apathy
Thursday April 08 2021
A man receives the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab during the launch of the mass vaccination at Mulago Women’s Specialised Hospital on March 10. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE.
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Several countries including Kenya are reinstating lockdowns to curb the surge in Covid-19 infections and hospitalisation as they experience another wave of the pandemic.
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Government has reported a significant increase in Covid-19 positive cases, warning that the country is nearing the onset of the second wave of the pandemic, which could affect livelihoods and the economy.
Several countries including Kenya are reinstating lockdowns to curb the surge in Covid-19 infections and hospitalisation as they experience another wave of the pandemic.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday December 30 2020
Some of the Intensive Care Unit beds stored at the conference hall of Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. PHOTO | MARTIN OKUDI .
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In answer to question on whether patients buy their own medicines, Dr Byanyima said such would be in exceptional circumstances such as drug stock-outs due to delayed delivery by the National Medical Stores, when patients with means demand specific medicine brands or when a patient is resistant to particular medication.
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Regional referral hospitals are stuck with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) equipment meant for treatment of critically-ill coronavirus patients because the health facilities lack structures in which to install them.