Jeremy Katungi (not real name for obvious reasons) became a Doctor because he wanted to provide quality care to his sister who had died giving birth. He envisioned a future where giving birth should never take a person’s life, not at least in his family. He believed that every woman should be able to give birth naturally. During his medical school days, he often joked with friends about how his parents had managed to give birth to him despite the lack of quality medical care and attention in the village where he was born. It was his belief that something…
Drug firms lose Ugx.80 million to conmen:
Conmen have come up with a new wave of crime targeting Kampala pharmaceutical companies duping the owners to give them expensive medical supplies using names of known general hospitals. This has since seen three different companies lose more than Shs88million in less than a week. Goodwill laboratory supplies Ltd first complained that people having Kisubi Hospital quotations and identity cards went to their offices in need of laboratory supplies worth Shs6million. The conmen offered them fake Kisubi Hospital cheques and after they bounced, they complained to Dr Robert Asaba the Medical Director Our Lady of Consolata Kisubi Hospital. Dr Robert…
Students to be allowed to have phones at schools
The government has directed secondary school head teachers to relax rules and allow students to possess mobile phones. The director of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr. Yusuf Nsubuga, said there is no law barring the students from having cellular phones at school, especially now that the gadgets are a necessity of everyday life. The teachers must appreciate that the world has changed and some rigid school rules of 1980s and 90s are no longer applicable, he said while addressing headteachers at the launch of the MasterCard Foundation Schools Scheme in Kampala. Positive side of the rule The world has tremendously…
Uganda to spend Ugx.13 trillion on railway line:
The works and transport minister Abraham Byandala says the Uganda Government is planning to construct a new railway running from Malaba to Kasese and Bihanga to Mirama Hills at the border of Rwanda which will have a branch connecting to the iron ore deposits in Muko from Bihanga. The minister also added that the project will include a new line from Tororo to pakwach connecting Gulu and will finally enter Southern Sudan. This project is a joint one between Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Southern Sudan. The project which the Kenyan government has already kick started is expected to cost…
Ugandan women developing the country:
Recently the Ugandan top most powerful women have been in the news world wide, right from East Africa to Middle East. For example, the woman speaker of the Ugandan parliament Rebecca Kadaga won the chairpersonship to the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians, international (CWP) The Queen of Buganda and Toro’s queen mother have hosted over 40 queens and other powerful women in an African Queens and Women Cultural leaders Network conference held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala. According to the UN’s Eastern Southern Africa central director, Christine Musisi, if we begin to recognize empowered women as the missing link in our pursuit…
Uganda Parliament finally passes the Anti-Money Laundering law
It has been a big stumbling block to the country’s competitiveness. The long awaited anti-money laundering bill was finally passed by Parliament of Uganda in August 2013 and now awaits presidential assent to become law. The Anti-Money Laundering law is aimed at combating corruption, drug trafficking and terrorism financing through criminalizing money laundering activities. As one banker lamented in 2010, “Bank of Uganda, through the Financial Institutions Act 2004, has been requiring us to undertake a thorough background check on customers through know-your-customers rules, flag suspicious transactions and report them as well as categorize customers based on risk assessment on…
