Category: Health

For many years, the Ugandan government has been grappling with rising cases of theft of medicines in public health facilities.  To address this challenge, National Medical Stores (NMS), a government agency which delivers medicines and supplies up to the health facilities’ doorsteps across the country, introduced a system called Last Mile Delivery (LMD). Officials say…

As part of the innovation to make customer relations friendlier, National Medical Stores has come up with the Smart Care, a set of digital products to enhance real time feedback. With this service, public health facilities and the general public can now provide and receive feedback on the medicine and medical supplies delivered by NMS…

With a blaring distress signal on and the blue top lights flashing, an ambulance rushed out of the gate at breakneck speed, leaving everyone at the health facility wondering what emergency had come up.  No sooner had it joined the main road though than the siren went off and it turned out barely a few…

While President Museveni was launching the NMS pharmaceutical warehouse in Kajjansi, off Entebbe road, in November 2022, he made a statement on drug theft which should have woken us up and worked towards zero theft of government medicines. The President said drugs bought by Ugandan taxpayers were on sale in the DRC and South Sudan…

 Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases, causing high morbidity and mortality especially in sub-Saharan Africa.  In Uganda, malaria is endemic in approximately 95% of the country, affecting over 90% of the population up to 20% of all hospital deaths. Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and accounts for 30-50% of out-patient…

Joyce Alinga, a resident of Aujongor Village, Obalanga Sub-County in Kapelebyong district conceived during the covid-19 lockdown in 2021. The 21- year- old of senior three students gave birth to conjoined twins in Amuria Health Centre IV in Amuria District by cesarean section. Looking at the conjoined twins, the health officials referred the children to…

Uganda has started reaping the benefits of a partnership with the United States in terms of strengthened transparency in the management of public medicines and health supplies.  The U.S. government helped NMS build a strong and modern health supply chain system which has enabled the government agency to ably run its procurement, storage and distribution…

For over 20 years, Jennifer Nsita, mother of six and resident of Dwoli village in Hoima district, has been receiving medical treatment from Dwoli Health Center III. The 38-year-old says that at this facility, they are treated for illnesses such as malaria, cough, headaches and other infections. The complicated cases are referred to Hoima Hospital.…

Daisy Nagawa, a 34-year-old mother of 2, in Amuru district, says she has delivered all her children with a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) in her neighborhood. This is because the nearest health facility is 16 kms away from her home and lacks funds to transport herself there or to buy the necessary supplies during labor…