Health

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has passed out 155 newly trained Community Health Workers in Mitooma District, cautioning them against opening unlicensed clinics or attempting to administer medical treatments, while the Ministry of Health announced a strategic pivot toward primary disease prevention to alleviate pressure on healthcare facilities.

The UPDF Joint Staff Health Services, in collaboration with British medical specialists, has commenced a five-day intensive Basic and Intermediate Life Support training program at the UPDF National Referral Hospital in Mbuya, aimed at equipping military healthcare workers with critical, life-saving clinical emergency response skills.

Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja has commissioned the newly constructed Butebo Health Centre IV in Butebo District, commending the UPDF Engineers Brigade for disciplined, cost-effective infrastructure delivery while urging residents to uphold domestic hygiene to curb preventable diseases.

The Ministry of Health and health partners have launched the Accelerating the Elimination of Vertical Transmission of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B in Uganda (ATESHHU) Project, a two-year intervention funded by the People’s Republic of China through ANECCA, to scale up integrated maternal screening, diagnosis, and treatment across the Busoga and Bunyoro sub-regions.

The World Health Organization and Africa CDC have declared the end of Uganda's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak after the nation completed 42 consecutive days without a single new infection following the discharge of its last patient.