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“Students are stressed about finances and coursework, and they have a body mass index (BMI) heading towards obesity”
Nutrition alone may not completely solve mental health challenges; however, it plays a role in maintaining and improving one’s mental wellbeing, so one should do their best to have healthy meals and look at them as supportive blocks for a healthy mind.
State Minister for Primary Health Care, Hon. Margaret Muhanga Mugisa, has urged individuals and institutions to support various stakeholders in ensuring the health of mothers across the country.
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.
as others are retreating to safer environments, health workers have to take the frontline positions to save communities.
At Mukwano Industries, Uganda, Joel Semakula was the employee of the year, earned a promotion, and had a salary boost on the way. But his true love was elsewhere.
Syringe in one hand and Bible in the other. God is at the center as Celicia Rwankore studies medicine at Uganda Christian University (UCU). Rwankore, who is in her penultimate year (fourth year) as a student of a Bachelor of Medicine, says titles such as a doctor add weight to the gospel one preaches.
Is this true, or are we being led to believe it? I’m not convinced, not even a little, because this cannot be normal.
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