Residents in Jonglei state’s Nyirol County bemoaned the area’s worsening health status and asked with the governor to intervene. During the governor’s visit to the area last week, the commissioner of Nyirol County, Bol Makuei, lamented the county’s poor health […]
Ethiopia has requested that the United Nations Health Organization probe its president, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for “harmful misinformation” and “misconduct,” accusing him of supporting rebels in his own war-torn Tigray area. Tedros, the highest-profile Tigrayan outside Ethiopia, characterized the area […]
The Minister of Health, Elizabeth Achuei, has voiced significant worries about complaints aired by the Juba Teaching Facility heads of departments, who urged for the formation of interim management to prevent the hospital from collapsing. Dr. Kedianda Chong, who is […]
The heads of departments at Juba Teaching Hospital and prominent specialists have warned of the impending collapse of the country’s largest referral institution, which they ascribe to an administrative vacuum. The doctors claimed the failure to replace the important empty […]
When the floodwaters began to rise in her hamlet, Nyabeel name changed to protect the identities of individuals, and her husband was at a loss for what to do. It was a difficult choice to leave their farm, on which […]
After the US Food and Drug Administration authorized its use in adults and adolescents, people at risk of contracting HIV will now have an injectable alternative for pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep). The injectable medicine cabotegravir, marketed with the trade name Apretude, […]
The administration of South Sudan has declared that local and foreign scientists have established that the strange ailment that killed 89 people in Fangak County, Jonglei state, last month is malaria. This comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) said […]
Ugandan medical professionals who were detained while demonstrating to parliament to demand better pay and working conditions have been freed on police bail. The group of 27 senior and intern health professionals had been transported to the Central Police station […]
The Director of Medical Services in the Ministry of Health Dr Henry Mwebesa has written to all Hospital Directors and Medical Supretendants and Medical Internship Sites directing them to ensure that all interns who are on strike leave the premises […]
Prof. Francis Omaswa, executive director of the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), a health rights NGO, has said that Uganda needs a new health worker recruiting mechanism. “Right present, health worker recruitment is decentralized.” This is […]
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