The Minister for Kampala Capital City Authority and Metropolitan Affairs, Ms Minsa Kabanda, has vowed to close all city arcades that have not complied with the standard operating procedures (SoPs) . Ms Kabanda made the remarks while inspecting the arcades and wholesale shops in parts of downtown Kampala, where she was in the company of […]
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His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa and African Union (AU) COVID-19 Champion, is pleased to announce the start of monthly shipments of vaccines acquired by the AU / African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) to the AU Member States today. An initiative by the AU Member States to pool their […]
Brazzaville — Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Africa reached a record peak in the week that ended on 1 August, marking the highest seven-day toll since the onset of the pandemic in the continent, new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows. Over 6400 deaths were recorded, a 2% rise compared with the previous week, […]
The federal government has again invited members of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) with a view to solving the ongoing industrial dispute in the health sector. Daily Trust had reported that many patients in different hospitals across the federation are currently groaning, sequel to the strike embarked upon by the doctors. The Minister of […]
Applications for the Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant will be opened from Friday, with the first payments expected to be made in the last week of August 2021. Announcing the re-introduction of the special COVID-19 SRD Grant, during a media briefing on Thursday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said an amount of […]
SCHOOL teachers say they can only return to work when they receive full Covid-19 vaccination. Their unions said Wednesday most of their members remain unvaccinated and were ill-prepared to return to work. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week indicated that schools must prepare to reopen. Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) acting national secretary-general Goodwill […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has said that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, does not have the legal right to bar House Officers from joining the ongoing nationwide strike. This is contained in a statement signed by NARD National President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, and Dr Jerry Isogun, Secretary, in Awka, […]
Taita Taveta county government has scaled down operations following an upsurge of Covid-19 infections in the area. Taita Taveta is among counties listed by the health ministry as a hotspot of the Delta variant. The recent spike raised concerns among residents and leaders with fears that the situation might get worse should people fail to […]
VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been sitting on the Auditor-General’s specially commissioned audit report for the ministry, which looks at potential abuses of Covid-19 funds, despite the fact that it has been ready for tabling in the National Assembly for months. The special audit, covering 2020, was commissioned after reports of rampant […]
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Nigeria: Who Will Fix Our Health System?
THE question of who will fix our health system has become germane as it appears that those given the mandate to do so have abdicated their responsibility. President Muhammadu Buhari has not shown any interest in fixing our health system. After six years in office, he has continued to fly to foreign countries for medical […]
MOST of people r e m e m b e r March last year with mixed feelings, because that was the time the country announced that Covid-19 had entered Tanzania. All countries that reported cases of the virus suffered in many ways, including socially, diplomatically, and most importantly, economically, and Tanzania was not spared. Among […]
Pregnant women in Haroresa village, Tana River County, deliver not in hospitals with modern maternity services but in the bush. Incessant lobbying of the county government for the past four years has yielded nothing, so expectant women find a spot in the wild and give birth to their babies on pieces of cloth with the […]
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will withdraw its services from the anglophone region of Cameroon after months of fruitless negotiations with government authorities to lift a ban on its operations. The charity, which was suspended for nearly eight months, was seeking the greenlight let it continue providing healthcare to thousands of people […]
Cape Town, South Africa — South Africa’s Cape Town is struggling to cope with more than 38,000 active cases of COVID-19, making it the epicenter of the pandemic in Africa’s worst-hit country. The provincial chairman of the Democratic Nursing Organization of South AfrIca, Elenor Roberts, said medical staff members were under immense pressure. “As of […]
Nairobi — If passed, this legislation will drive LGBT+ people further away from HIV prevention, care and treatment services and endanger the advances made against the HIV epidemic in the last decade, says UNAIDS. A proposal to criminalise LGBT+ people in Ghana is “a gross violation” of human rights and could set back a decade […]
Earlier in March, the government was forced to shut down Government Girls College, Mabera, following a similar outbreak. The government of Sokoto State, North-west Nigeria, on Tuesday, confirmed that 23 persons have died of cholera outbreak in the state. The state’s commissioner for health, Ali Inname, who briefed journalists, noted that the infection has spread […]
Described as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the global health body, they are viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases that mainly affect the world’s poorest people. A Nigerian government official has disclosed that the country is still confronted by the challenges posed by 14 out of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) listed by the World […]
“My appeal is that they return to the negotiating table so that whatever outstanding issues can be sorted out.” The Minister of State for Health, Olurunnimbe Mamora, has appealed to the leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to return to the negotiating table to address outstanding issues. The minister appealed to NARD […]