The Ministry of Health will today release some of the 65 health workers that were recently quarantined after exposure to the Ebola virus. The Health Minister Dr. Jane Aceng confirmed this. The mutated Ebola Sudan strain virus has by far claimed the lives of three health workers including a trainee doctor from Tanzania. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health discharged a ...
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The Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng in her end of the year letter has written to District chairmen, City and Municipality Mayors, CAOs, and town clerks. This letter is intended to warn the above-mentioned against alleged misuse of Covid-19 response and surveillance vehicles. According to the letter dated 20th December 2021, addressed to the mentioned leaders, the vehicles ...
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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has ordered all unvaccinated health workers to vacate their work places with immediate effect. A recent later dated 3rd December was directed to all chief Administrative Officers, Heads of National referral hospitals among other health chiefs. In the letter, Dr. Henry G. Mwebesa the Director General Health services ordered a follow up on the vaccination ...
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says a total of 4.8 million people in the country will have been vaccinated by they end of this year. The categories of people to receive the vaccine include frontline workers such as teachers, health workers, students, among other categories. The president said this will lay a solid ground for the reopening of the country’s economy ...
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From the start of the pandemic, at least 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 according to the WHO Chief. The observation came from the World Health Organization Chief as he called for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries.At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed health workers. He thanked ...
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