Ham enterprises limited has defied Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) directive to stop the construction of lock-up shops in place of a perimeter wall they had agreed on around Nakivubo Stadium. The company is said to have entered an unscrupulous public private partnership with the stadium management and have instead resorted to constructing lock-up shops along the area where fire has gutted twice in the last three years KCCA public and corporate affairs deputy director, George N. Ndahendekire said the authority gave a notice directing Ham Enterprises Ltd to halt the construction for flouting a given plan. We have learnt…

The government has signed a Ugx30 billion deal with CareRight HealthCare, a consortium of foreign investors, tasked to start reforms which will help fix the so called ‘sick’ healthcare sector in the country. Officials from the Ministry of finance reveal that, more focus is being on how to reduce the high health costs, make services accessible to people which make it easy for the government to deal with the major killer diseases like breast cancer, malaria and HIV/AIDS. Under the memorandum of understanding, CareRight HealthCare would provide support in scaling up localized programmes focused on improving the health of women…

Rubaga Hospital is in the spotlight after it was sued for alleged negligence of a former employee of Kampala Capital City Authority’s daughter, who died while she allegedly procured an abortion from the facility. Ms Betty Nambuya, whose daughter, Linda Nambuya, died at the hospital, is seeking Ugx. 70 million in compensation over alleged negligence. She sued the hospital before the High Court on July 18. Ms Nambuya accuses the hospital of having carried out an abortion on her 21-year-old daughter, on the night of February 1, 2012. She contends that Nambuya was neglected leading to her death. She claims…

Uganda has received a high end laboratory that will test rock samples to determine the potential of a given area for hydrocarbons (oil and gas). The lab, the first of its kind in the country, will study sample rocks from potential areas to establish their permeability, porosity, conductivity, fluid content and geologic age – for presence of hydrocarbons, through a process known as Core sampling. Core sampling is a process used in mining by taking a solid core of rock from a reservoir to determine the potentiality of a mineral. Mr Sriniras Reddy, the lab’s operations manager, said yesterday, the…

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…

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…