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The cost of having a healthy baby in our health centres


Daily Monitor
Saturday April 17 2021
Left: A health worker explains to an expectant mother why she needs to regularly visit the health centre for antenatal services at UMC Hospital in Mukono. PHOTO/Promise Twinamukye
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Excessive bleeding accounts for 46 per cent of all registered maternal deaths. Hypertensive disorders stand at 11 per cent, followed by infection of the genital tract and abortion related complications.
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In 2017, Catherine Akol, a resident of Jimos village, Losilang Parish, in Kotido District, Karamoja region delivered her first born by a caesarean section.
She was advised to have her next baby in a hospital.  In the wee hours of January 17, 2020, a semblance of labour started. Since the pain was not intense, she and her husband Henry Angelo embarked on the journey to Kotido Health Centre IV .  ....

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Hospitals report 48% decline  in child respiratory illnesses


Daily Monitor
Monday February 08 2021
A man wears a mask on 8th Street, Namuwongo in Kampala on September 1, 2020. PHOTO/ DAVID LUBOWA
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Health facilities in Kampala Metropolitan Area have registered 48 per cent decline in acute respiratory illnesses among children aged below five, a new report indicates.
Up to 21,983 deaths nationally occurred among children aged below five, who suffered from respiratory illnesses, with pneumonia being one of the major causes, according to the 2019/2020 Annual Health Sector Performance Report. 
Dr Theresa Piloya, a paediatric endocrinologist at Makerere University, who led the study in six health facilities in two sub-counties in Wakiso District, attributed the decline to Covid-19 prevention measures such as hand washing and wearing facemasks.  ....

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