Dr. Mwebesa will be tasked with overseeing the management and administration of health services in Uganda, ensuring that health policies are effectively implemented and that quality healthcare is delivered to the population.

While commenting on the ongoing World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, Rogers Kisame from the Children’s Foundation Uganda said that the week will end with the conference at Kampala Serena Hotel, where different officials from the Ministry of Health will dive into how to prevent the transmission of infectious germs, among others.

According to NDA, since March 2024, the authority has successfully retrieved government medications worth more than UGX 2.5 billion. 

According to the study done by Makerere School of Public Health, it was unveiled that the national prevalence rate of epilepsy in Uganda is alarmingly high at 1.69%, indicating that over 770,000 Ugandans are living with the disease.

According to the International Diabetes Foundation, in 2021, an estimated 716,000 adults in Uganda had diabetes. About 89% of Ugandans with diabetes are neither on medication nor aware of their status and therefore present to the health system with difficult-to-treat complications.

Police in Mbeere South sub-county are investigating circumstances under which a 26-year-old man hacked his 24-year-old wife to death in Kenya. This incident happened on...

According to the institute, about 70% of patients go to hospitals late for cancer diagnosis and treatment because of limited access to screening and low cancer awareness. This delayed diagnosis and treatment leads to a low survival rate of 30% or fewer for adult patients and roughly 50% for children.