Insurance protection is also relevant to Ugandans travelling abroad for education, business and other purposes, where medical emergencies and accidents can create unexpected costs.
“As a kingdom, we are with you and shall work together." Close to making a month on the throne, Nyabongo I said challenges among Tooro's young people are holding back the development of the region.
“The elderly people face numerous challenges, including chronic illnesses, but sadly, at many hospitals and health centres, they do not get the necessary attention due to lack of specialised personnel. This complicates their situation,” he said last Saturday in Jinja City.
The findings highlighted the importance of ensuring that improvements in community health workers’ training and support are matched by reliable supplies of essential medicines and equipment.
Zibwa is reported to have gone to Joan Mukoda's garden, where she was harvesting groundnuts, and picked up her son Junior Tiba under the pretext of playing with him, before disappearing with him.
Abeja said environmental degradation, floods, droughts and other climate-related emergencies continue to affect children, threatening their access to essential services and undermining their wellbeing.
With the family struggling to survive, Conslate began burning and selling charcoal to raise money for her siblings’ school fees.
“The experience I will never forget was when one of our staff, who is deaf, became pregnant. She was already about five or six months pregnant when I started taking her for antenatal care, so I took her to the hospital, where she had a scan, and we were told that the baby was fine,” Namukwaya said. She added: “Later, when she went into labour, we took her to the health centre, but when we reached there, the biggest challenge was communication. The nurses could not communicate with her in sign language. They did not know how to tell her what to do or explain what was happening to her, and instead they were shouting at her for days until the third day, when I went to the labour ward and helped her.
“Julius Nyerere was a humble and down-to-earth leader. He understood that leadership was about serving the people and not seeking personal benefits. That is why people continue to remember him decades after his death,” Maria said.
Obbo condemned violence against children, parents and neighbours, questioning why people who profess to be Christians would turn their homes into places of fear and suffering.
Emmanuel Asher Ikwara, a researcher at CHDC, said the study found that the burden of raising children with disabilities often fell disproportionately on women, with some men viewing the responsibility as belonging to mothers.
A pelvic ultrasound scan conducted on July 24, this year indicated that the uterus and ovaries were not visualised. Mugume is appealing to the Government to help his daughter obtain specialised medical care. He also wants his daughter compensated, saying the removal of her uterus has left her unable to have children in future.
“The corruption we are talking about is because people are Christians by mouth, but their hearts are terribly rotten. That is why some people have more than they need, while others have less than they need,” says Bishop Kosea Odongo of Soroti.
The Commission's findings come against the backdrop of persistent deprivation in some regions.
Uganda’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate among married women stands at 42.4%, against a national target of 47.8%, while the total fertility rate is about 5.2 children per woman.
Speaking during the same event, National PPH Champion Charlotte Kainerugaba urged women to seek medical care as soon as they suspect pregnancy so they can be screened and treated for conditions such as anaemia that increase the risk of complications during childbirth.
A total of 8,285,835 children aged 9–59 months had received the measles-rubella vaccine by the end of the campaign, exceeding the national target of 7,607,692 children, according to figures from the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI).
Kampala Lord Mayor, Eng. Ronald Nsubuga Balimwezo, was among the guests who paid tribute to the late priest, describing him as a mentor whose investment in people continues to produce results.
“These days, when you are going somewhere, you use Google Maps to show you the right way. Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation and a voice will tell you to go to a witchdoctor, steal, fight, or engage in coupling at an early age at school. Such are not good solutions. Let the Holy Spirit and the 10 Commandments be your Google Maps to guide you in your academics and in your daily life,” Kabuye urged learners during his sermon.
"Rising temperatures mean rising danger in pregnancy," he is expected to say.