Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Dr Charles Olaro, the Director Curative Services in the Health revealed that despite awareness efforts about the availability of such services that help women battling complications post abortion, many still end up in the medical ward even when they turn up to hospitals because they provide wrong information to health workers.
Speaking during a press conference, the hospital Executive Director Dr Rosemary Byanyima said the camp which is an independence anniversary gift to Uganda will not attend to simple surgeries such as hernias but complicated procedures in the area of neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgeries and surgeries to solve gastro-intestinal complications among others for both adults and children.
Atwine said as a result of the rise in demand for the service, they had started seeing some clinics advertising themselves as DNA test providers, something that has now been banned and that those found promoting themselves will have their licenses automatically canceled.
According to Prof Joseph Matovu, the lead researcher from Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences they tested the approach using fishermen in Buvuma and Kalangala islands considering the fact that the government struggles to have them consistently tested despite being one of the key populations in which HIV prevalence is higher than the national average.
Dr. Madina Guloba, a Senior Research Fellow at the center, says that they surveyed over seventeen thousand households in twelve sugarcane growing districts in Buganda, Bunyoro, and Busoga regions where they found only one in every four households to be food secure.
Dr. Ivan Kimuli, the head of Clinical Services at the Institute told journalists at a media briefing that they have been receiving daily visits from individuals with symptoms related to post-COVID effects. Many of them complain of a persistent cough that does not respond to treatment and breathing problems, leading some to rely on inhalers for relief.
Paul Mayende, an official at the organization’s Uganda office listed half a dozen approved guiding documents that have provisions on informal settlements but said when they did a survey in selected Kampala slums, they found these to be largely not biting. Some of the policies listed include the National Housing Policy which was updated in 2016, the National Urban Policy 2017, and the National Human Settlements Policy.
Flavia Nassaka
