Why Uganda has high blindness cases
Sunday April 04 2021
An optician conducts an eye test on a patient during a health camp at Victorious Primary School, in Mengo, Kampala in 2019. PHOTOs | RACHEL MABALA
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The retired medical worker revealed to this reporter that his wife (unnamed) was also operated last month because of cataracts and glaucoma.
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He says the operation followed a shocking loss of sight after a painless disease attacked his eyes.
“Five years ago, I started experiencing strange changes in my eyes. Every day I looked at my face in the mirror, my left eye was narrowing. But there was no pain in the eye,” he recalls.
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Pandemic Has Long-Term Impact On Mother And Child Health
Study finds lack of health services led to an increase in maternal deaths, stillbirths and maternal depression.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on health-care systems globally and potentially on maternal and neonatal outcomes, with an increase in maternal deaths, stillbirths and maternal depression.
A recently released systematic review, published in The Lancet Global Health Journal, titled “Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis” has indicated that the rates of stillbirth and maternal deaths rose by around a third during the COVID-19 pandemic with outcomes showing a considerable disparity in stillbirths between high and low resource settings.
Children immunisation fell short by 7.2% between April 19 and Mar 20: Centre
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GHAZNI (AFGHANISTAN), Jan. 27, 2020 (Xinhua) A health worker gives polio vaccination dose to a child during a vaccination campaign in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, 2020. The Afghan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide campaign . Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, March 15 : The government fell short by 7 per cent in achieving coverage of full immunisation of children between April 2019 and March 2020. The information was shared in the Parliament by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, on Monday.
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10,437 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine administered
March 11, 2021
Saint Lucia launched its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on February 17, 2021.
The initial focus was on people who are at the greatest risk of exposure to the virus or to having severe outcomes if they contract it. As such for the past two weeks, the emphasis has been placed on reaching the target groups in Phases 1A and 1B, ensuring that as many people in these target groups are protected.
That include frontline workers within clinical and national security settings, senior citizens and people living with chronic health conditions.
As of Tuesday March 9, 2021 a total of 10,437 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine has been administered. The response at the various vaccination sites has been very encouraging. “This level of interest we see as an appreciation by our citizens of the health benefits of the vaccines and the opportunity it presents for regaining some measure of normality as continue to fight