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Uganda’s first female Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja, is once again at the center of public debate after ordering the police to summon Galaxy TV journalist David Mwesigwa, following his pointed questions to President Yoweri Museveni about the state of the country’s health facilities. During Museveni’s nomination at the Electoral Commission offices in Lweza, Mwesigwa raised serious concerns about overcrowding, poor …

By Eric Yiga Administrators at Mukono General Hospital, a government health facility, are raising alarm over worsening conditions at the maternity ward, where a shortage of delivery beds has forced some mothers to give birth on the floor. Others, after delivery, are instructed to sleep on bare cement floors, exposing them to severe health risks. Hospital director Dr. Geoffrey Kasirye revealed that …