Damalie Nachuha, the East Kyoga Regional Police Commander, confirmed that the family approached her office regarding Aluka's death. After recording their complaints, she directed them to Mbale for the postmortem, since the regional police doctor sits there.
The malaria eradication program also includes an extensive indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign, covering both the interior and exterior areas of homes. This approach ensures that mosquitoes landing on surfaces are killed, thereby reducing the risk of malaria transmission.
Midwives play a crucial role in providing emotional, physical, and medical support to expectant mothers, ensuring safe and healthy childbirth. However, the role has traditionally been viewed as a female profession.
These health workers believe that family planning will enable mothers to have manageable numbers of children, allowing them to maintain their health and reduce the risks of unforeseen birth-related emergencies during delivery.
The procedure, involving the complete excision of female genitalia can lead to long-term health
complications during childbirth, such as fistula, continuous urine leakage, and
increases the risk of death during delivery due to early marriage.
One of the biggest causes of maternal mortality for instance is bleeding, high blood pressure during pregnancy, and infections but according to Prof Peter Waiswa, a lecturer and researcher based at Makerere University School of Public Health (MAKSPH) this data can not be relied on for accurate health decisions as the country has noted collected such data for seven years now.
The report shows that over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth which is equivalent to 1 death happening every 7 seconds, mostly from preventable or treatable causes if proper care was available.
Dr. Dan Kaye, a Gynecologist at the government-owned Kawempe National Referral hospital, says while private facilities have moved on to online resources such as clinic master to record and save patient data, at the facility the book gets filled in less than a month.
The report, which tracks maternal deaths nationally, regionally and globally from 2000 to 2020, shows there were an estimated 287,000 maternal deaths worldwide in 2020. This marks only a slight decrease from 309,000 in 2016 when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into effect.
At the meeting, Dr. Imelda Namagembe, a Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital, said the majority of women estimated at 70% who die at Kawempe and Mulago Women’s hospitals are referred in a very critical state when nothing much can be done to save them.
Adiyo a resident of Pajule Town Council says expectant mothers are referred to facilities like St Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu and Kalongo Hospital in Agago district to access ultra sound, more than 70 Kilometers away.
The facility that receives about 100 expectant mothers on a daily basis for antenatal care, has only one blood pressure machine which is used to detect the condition.
WHO records indicate that the number of women getting pregnant within twelve months after delivery is increasing. From 2017 to 2018, the number increased from 65 to 69 percent in Uganda.
The equipment is being distributed under a five year cold chain equipment optimization platform aimed at increasing the coverage of immunization across the country. Vaccines have to be kept under certain temperatures to retain their potency.
Kampala High Court Judge Benjamin Kabiito has today visited Nakaseke District Local Government Hospital to ascertain whether it was out of negligence that an expectant mother died unattended to by the doctor on duty.
