The followers Simon Ssenyonga and Amos Musheija filed their suit in the Civil Division of High Court against the Director Criminal Investigations Department, AIGP Grace Akullo, Commissioner of Police Henry Mugumya and the Attorney General.
Dr. Sabrina Kitaka a consultant pediatrician at Mulago hospital said the disease which is more common among children but can also affect adults is common during the cold weather.
Dr Patrick Lule, the Busia Municipal principal medical officer says that the samples of blood from the victims which were taken to Mbale regional hospital tested positive of cholera.
“The hospital administrators are not clear on when the pathologist will resume duty. Bodies are collected from crime scenes and delivered to the mortuary where they can spend two nights in fridges without postmortem, which kills cases,” he said.
Nelson Kaggwa, a resident of Luwungulu landing site in Kyamuswa Sub County, says the ambulance is a huge relief since many patients on several islands have been struggling to get to Kyamuswa Health center IV for treatment.
Dr. Lumu, who is said to be one of the first medical practitioners in Uganda, served at Mulago National Regional Referral hospital before he was appointed Health Minister shortly after Uganda attained her independence in 1962. He is said to be the brain behind the establishment of Regional Referral hospitals across the country.
David Kabanda from Dalumba Advocates, which is representing CEFROHT, says manufacturing and advertising firms are playing on the ignorance of children to make profits, which may leave the children unhealthy.
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish is a stable community of the faithful whose pastoral care is entrusted to a parish priest, under the authority of the diocesan bishop.
Dr Paul Zirimala, the officer in- charge of Wakiso Health IV, notes that the most conditions registered from the sites over the last months has been Hernia. Dr Zirimala says that on average they have been performing five to seven hernia surgeries on patients working from the quarry sites.
Although police is yet to establish the exact cause of Hankinga’s death, residents attribute it to suffocation while others claim it may have been food poisoning. Our reporter visited the saloon, which operates in a metallic kiosk and observed that it lacks proper ventilation to regulate air flow.
Betty Aol Ocan, the Leader of the Opposition in parliament who lobbied for the rice, says it is a Christmas gift from government to the beneficiaries through her office.
Michel Ssenoga, operating in Kira town, says lack of public toilets has forced some people in the municipality to resort to desperate means of disposing their waste like defecating in open areas, incomplete buildings and street corridors.
Fredrick Makaire the Executive Director of Save For Health Uganda a promoter of Community Health Insurance Scheme in Luweero say that they had proposed that poor people can enroll to the National insurance scheme through community health scheme but this was deleted from drafted bill.
Health workers have failed to access the health centre since Tuesday. URN reporter saw health workers stranded at the broken bridge pondering on how to access the health centre.
Sam Opio, the Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda said even as the annual drug availability report launched on Thursday by the Medicines Transparency Alliance puts drug availability in facilities low at 36%, government cannot account for the medicines that they receive annually.
