Tag Archives: Vaccine

KAMPALA: Kawempe National Referral Hospital (KNRH) has been thrust into the spotlight after the Auditor General exposed a string of management failures, including the hospital’s failure to use the government’s e-Afya electronic system to manage vaccines and medicines, even as staff reportedly complain that the much-publicised platform is faulty and offers little help in their day-to-day work.The findings, contained in …

Kampala — The latest Auditor General’s report on the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) reads like a catalogue of missed opportunities, stalled projects and internal power struggles at Uganda’s top agricultural research body. At the centre of the storm is the Director General, Dr. Yona Baguma, whose four-year contract runs out next year April. Appointed in April 2023 by the …

Kampala/Matugga – Troubling signs are emerging from Uganda’s flagship pharmaceutical and biotechnology giant, Dei Biopharma, as reports confirm a massive exodus of top scientists and senior managers from the company’s state-of-the-art vaccine and drug manufacturing complex in Kigogwa–Matugga. The Dei Biopharma manufacturing facility in Matugga, near Kampala, Once hailed as a landmark investment that would anchor Africa’s healthcare self-sufficiency, the …