Health

President of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), Associate Professor Frank Asiimwe Rwabinda, has praised the growth of medical schools in Uganda, noting that for nearly 70 years, Makerere University was the only institution training doctors in the country after medical education began in the institution in 1924.

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Behind the quiet walls of student hostels and university corridors, a silent reproductive health crisis is brewing. What is meant to be an emergency solution,  the morning-after pill, is increasingly being misused as a routine contraceptive among university students.

After years of dealing with depression and social anxiety, I had finally found my way out. I had gone from being the most reclusive person one could ever meet to being the most jovial girl in the room.

Save the Mothers’ Executive Director Miriam Mutabaazi handed over her directorship role to now Interim Executive Director Edward Mukooza on February 7 at Uganda Christian University (UCU) in Florence Mirembe Hall. 

A 2007 incident in the family of Jethro Odoi Okoth was the impetus for a medicine career choice for Odoi, now age 23 and a year away from becoming a doctor. Odoi, then a teenager, saw his younger brother suffer a fractured skull, necessitating surgery in a country where neurosurgeons are scarce.