Health

I am Simon Guthinji, a Kenyan man from Kirinyaga County. I’m a father of one, my wife Guthinji Mary died on child birth. She was diagnosed with hypertension and got admitted for days. We approached different hospitals seeking for treatment but all they offered was usual medication. This man was frustrated by the thought of his daughter dying at such ...

I am Chelsea Wachia from Machakos County. Am a single mom of 4 children all of which are studying. Two years ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer, a result of my smoking habits. I have been in and out of hospitals, failed to get any assistance. I was stressed as I used up almost all the money I had ...

Children have been making news lately with reports of suicide. It is absurd just thinking about the fact that such little souls resort to solving problems by suicide. How can a child just think the solution to their problem is suicide? How did we get here? Almost every week there is an article on a child who has ended their ...

The Ministry of Health(MOH) recently announced that the National house to house polio immunization campaign will start on Friday. The Ministry said the campaign will run for three days from January 14th to 16th 2022. All children under the age of 5 years will get vaccine. In August 2021, Uganda confirmed an outbreak of polio, 14 years after the WHO ...

The Minister Of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has said Uganda is now officially in the third wave of Covid 19. Aceng said that there has been an increase of at least thirty-seven (37) percent in the number of positive Covid-19 cases, and a 4.8 percent increase in the test positivity rate compared to the previous week of December 22 ...