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A lightning rod could be beneficial in this weather… Wednesday April 21 2021 Summary Many parts of the country are still considered high risk for lightning strikes. It is prudent, therefore, for those putting up tall structures to think of protecting them from lightning. Advertisement A  UNESCO report on lightning shows on a satellite map of Uganda that the Lake Victoria area, Adjumani, Amuru, Nwoya, Moyo and Kiryandongo are at very high risk of being struck by lightning within a range of 30 to 40 flashes km/yr. The report also shows areas where lightning has killed people around Lake Vic...

Doctors oppose mandatory Covid-19 jabs Tuesday April 20 2021 A health worker administers AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, at Mulago Women’s Specialised Hospital in Kampala on March 10, 2021. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE Summary The April 13 statistics from the Ministry of Health state that of the 90,142 health workers who have so far been registered all over the country to take the jabs, only 20,405 (23 per cent) have been vaccinated. Advertisement The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is protesting a proposal by some district leaders that every eligible citize...

Officials call for mandatory taking of Covid-19 vaccines Monday April 19 2021 Uganda received 864,000 Oxford- AstraZeneca doses of through Covax – the facility set up by World Health Organisation - last month. PHOTO/KELVIN ATUHAIRE Summary European Court of Human Rights last week ruled that compulsory vaccinations would not contravene human rights law — and may be necessary in democratic societies, according to a report by AFP last week. Advertisement Government officials are pushing for compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of frontline workers to protect them from coronavirus-related death an...

At first, the Covid-19 virus seemed so distant, but kept inching closer to us, until the first case was confirmed in Uganda on March 21, 2020. It is now over a year since a 36-year-old Ugandan male returning from United Arab Emirates became the first Covid-19 patient.    It seemed like the virus was never going to reach here,  much as it was spreading faster to the rest of the world from Wuhan City in China. On  a Saturday evening, just after President Museveni had addressed the nation and introduced a raft of preventive measures, I received a call from the Minister of Health, Dr Jane Rut...

2021-04-08 15:55:53 GMT2021-04-08 23:55:53(Beijing Time) Xinhua English KAMPALA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has asked South Sudan to compensate families of drivers who were recently killed by unknown militia in different road ambushes in the country. The two sides held a security meeting on Thursday at the common border point of Elegu. Geoffrey Oceng, Resident District Commissioner of Amuru, who chaired the meeting, told Xinhua by telephone that Uganda handed over the petition by cross-border truck drivers to the South Sudan team. The drivers, according to Oceng, also demanded that the...