No matter how old the cry may be, the debates about combating climate change keep on becoming fresher and fresher every day at UN Climate Conventions, UNFCC. The ODI report shows that “despite committing to end fossil fuel subsidies, 10 European countries (like France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, among others) continue producing 84% of Europe’s energy-related […]
Category Archives: Health
We need sustainable solutions for menstruation hygiene beyond donating pads
There is an old saying, usually attributed to Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher that goes “give a man fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” In that simple statement, lays an important life lesson and that is; give someone an answer, […]
Why Can’t Our Health System Deliver for The Common Ugandan?
Pictured below is a running drip hanging from a suitcase in Accident & Emergency (A & E) ward, Mulago, on one of the several busy mornings. That and similar kinds of ingenious inventions are what the medical students, interns, nurses, and senior health officers on rotation in A & E have to resort to. Like […]
The Face of Uganda’s Struggle against Cancer
Over the past five years, many fundraisers in the form of car washes, marathons, movies have been held in support of cancer patients and generally in the fight against cancer. Over time, we have seen the #SaveCarol campaign in April last year that raised UGX 300m with which she was taken to the US for […]
Health sector continues to suffer as budget dwindles
Now that the budget period is upon us, there is a lot of talk about what is important or not for Uganda’s economy. Oil as it is, comes high on Uganda’s development agenda for the years to come, a magic wand of sorts to all our problems, they’ve said. In fact, the President, Yoweri Museveni […]
Free medical services in Uganda are expensive
Anyone who has had a toothache will tell you it is the worst kind of pain they have ever felt. They will tell you it hurts in the most obscene way and all solutions involve a dentist. They will tell you how uncomfortable the dentist’s chair is, and how minutes seem like days in that […]
Who will heal Uganda’s sick health sector?
We as Ugandans disagree on a lot of things. Be it political or socio-economic but if there is one thing all Ugandans considered to be the right thinking members of the society by the majority should agree on, is that Uganda’s health sector has gone to the dogs or the dogs have come to the […]
The Burden of falling sick in Uganda
I remember September last year as the time I got so sick, threw up all night and drained my account to get back on my feet. As a freelancer, my health was my greatest resource. It was mumps, to be precise. I went to see a doctor who prescribed painkillers because mumps is a viral […]