By Timothy Eodu Karita Health Centre IV in Amudat District has received a major boost under MTN Uganda’s 21 Days of Yellow Care, with health workers, local leaders and development partners describing the intervention as a timely response to the needs of one of the region’s hard-to-reach communities. The support, …
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By Cinderella Atenyo & Augustine Olule For many mothers in Karita and the wider Amudat District, accessing specialised healthcare has never simply been a matter of walking into the nearest hospital. It has often meant confronting distance, isolation and uncertainty. Karita Health Centre IV sits in one of Uganda’s remote …
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By Timothy Eodu Police in Amudat District have arrested a health worker at Amudat Hospital following the alleged theft of government-supplied medicines and medical consumables. The arrest highlights ongoing concerns over the protection of scarce medical resources in a region already grappling with significant health challenges. Amudat District and the …
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By Cinderella Atenyo As the impacts of climate change intensify across Uganda’s Karamoja region — marked by prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall, severe land degradation, and increasing desertification — a powerful community-led response is taking root. On Thursday, 200 seedlings of Leucaena leucocephala (locally known as Lusina), a hardy, multipurpose tree, …
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By Cinderella Atenyo Hundreds of midwives from across Uganda converged in Moroto District on Tuesday 5th 2026 to mark the International Day of the Midwife under the theme “One Million More Midwives.” They issued a passionate call for urgent government recruitment, warning that extreme workloads and critical shortages are driving …
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By Cinderella Atenyo-Moroto The Ministry of health in conjunction with Moroto District will host this year’s national celebrations for International Day of the Midwife on 5 May 2026, bringing global attention to Karamoja’s efforts to end preventable maternal deaths. Under the Theme, “the world needs One Million More Midwives,” and …
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By Cinderella Atenyo-Moroto For so long, Moroto Regional Referral Hospital has been grappling with a faulty X-Ray machine, due to the high patient influx for its services. This led to the machines’ frequent break down, leading to more complaints among patients and local leaders. With these concerns raised during the …
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By Cinderella Atenyo-Moroto As Karamoja commemorated it’s belated World Mental Health Day on Thursday 6 November, at Moroto Boma grounds, in Moroto District, under the theme: “Access to Services: Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies,” several stakeholders called for more action to be taken to revert these increasing figures. The …
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By Goodluck Musinguzi, 8th June 2025 Dr Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health was in Mbarara City to inspect ongoing works at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital including a block that will house the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which will solve the challenges of limited space. We want to …
Read More »The construction works on the emergency call and dispatch center are rated at 79% by a representative of the contractor BY GOODLUCK & RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: 8th,June, 2025 The construction of an ambulance call and dispatch center that is expected to improve coordination and management for medical emergencies is under …
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