Muniini K. Mulera

Uganda

Ugandan citizen disease awareness and vigilance

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersOctober 25, 20160 comments

The president of Uganda launched a door-to-door disease prevention project in Sheema District, reported in the Daily Monitor of 28th of August, 2015, whose packaging included an Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) and a Constituency Health Task Force, to bring quality ...

On the eve of Uganda's Independence Anniversary

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 10, 20160 comments

Yes, it is the Eve of Uganda's 54th "Independence" anniversary. Coincidentally, I am in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, and I feel so glad that I am not in Uganda. If I was in Uganda, I am afraid that I would never have been able to celebrate "Independence" day in the way that ...

Stopping Hospital equipment theft is a citizen duty for Ugandans

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersJuly 12, 20160 comments

Prosecutions are initiated against government abuse of government property; hospital equipment thieves not isolated; we hear little of prosecution success. It is worthy my while that I interrogate why hospital property thieves go Scot-free? Have you ever heard ...

Isn’t Uganda hurting from health sector underfunding?

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20161 comments

While before Uganda’s Parliamentary Health Committee, Dr Diana Atwine, head of medicines and health service delivery monitoring unit, explained Uganda’s state of public hospitals, maintaining that 60 % of health centres IVs are not functional, and the referral system at ...

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community: Part Two – Vulnerability and Belonging

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsMay 16, 20160 comments

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community Two – Vulnerability and Belonging My previous blog contains the 1960s story of Mwami Semei of Kiwafu Village, Entebbe, Uganda, and how Mwaami Semei stumbled into belonging and community only ...

Uganda’s Tobacco Control Act comes into force on 19th of May 2016

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 11, 20162 comments

This 19th of May 2016 is the day the Tobacco Control Act No. 22 enters into force. The same was passed by Parliament on the 28th of July 2015, assented to by the president on the 19th of September 2015 and gazetted in the Uganda Gazette No 67 Volume CVIII dated 18th November 2015. ...

The "No Change" Slogan and the Health Care System in Uganda

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20160 comments

Uganda has been under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government for 30 years. There are things that continue to puzzle the local people and the educated all alike. For example, why would the NRM Government refuse to allocate at least 15% of its National budget to the ...

Empowering nurses builds patient-centred health care

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 4, 20162 comments

Empowered nurses have effective conflict resolution skills and understand the skilful application of nursing ethics to build strong patient care teams in Uganda. Cultivating a culture of advocacy and empowerment among nurses decreases the length of hospital stays thus improving patient ...

POLITICAL WILL AND REDUCING MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 27, 20160 comments

What is Uganda's budget for this year's presidential swearing in ceremony and how much does it cost to save the 16-20 women who will possibly die in childbirth that day? Sri Lanka is one of the low income countries in South Asia, but has been hailed for progressively ...

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsApril 25, 20160 comments

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship In my first blog at Mulera’s Fireplace, I alluded to an incident at a pre-Independence election rally where the person who went on to be Independent Uganda’s first Attorney ...

When misdiagnosis means a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 5, 20161 comments

When mis diagnosis means in a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital: ‘inappropriate referral’ By: Dr.Sabrina Kitaka We were completing a 6 hour ward round on a hot Thursday morning at the Infectious Diseases Ward at the Mulago National Referral Hospital. ...

Yes, TB Meningitis can be treated in Uganda, and better still it can be prevented

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 13, 20162 comments

By Sabrina.B.Kitaka Case Presentation: T.O (not his initials) was a 2 year old boy who was the 1st born to both his parents. He presented to the emergency unit of the Mulago National Referral Hospital on 18th January 2016 with a history of fever and refusal to feed for 2 days. He ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; No Functional Chain of Survival Systems

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 2, 20160 comments

Currently, there are very few functioning Ambulances in the country, and where ambulances exist, they may not have fuel or drivers. Many times, patients with life threatening emergencies are told to go to the next high level health facility, only to wait by the road side for public ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; Re-thinking Our Priorities.

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 1, 20160 comments

The Health care system in Uganda is at the moment described as inadequate, and holds no promise for its population in meeting and addressing the current health care challenges and the demands of the people of Uganda. As a result of the inefficient health care infrastructure, ...

WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH

By Susan GithukuUganda East AfricaMarch 15, 20161 comments

The history books will write that in the region where I was born, democracy was at war and the constitutions that were drawn up had been scripted on low cost paper. Decades ago I was an avid student of history. I could remember details of inane events at the drop of a ...

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood As one enters Entebbe Town, right after St Mark’s Anglican Church, there is a lone tree on the right-hand-side standing in the middle of a small open well-mowed green area. It is called The ...

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