Stories

By Eddie Ssemakula In a highly commercialized pharmaceutical world, every step toward local medical innovation is a victory worth celebrating. Such is the story of Dr Delafrique, a medical student at Mbarara University School of Technology (MUST) he invented the “VEP Antiseptic Herbal Wound Spray”, an herbal formulation derived from…

By Eddie Ssemakula   For over 15 years as a neonatologist, one of Dr Margaret Nakakeeto’s goals has been to establish a newborn care system that would allow for the cultivation and sustenance of sustainable responses to infant and preterm care. “After beginning at zero in 2020, we have now…

As stated by Agnes Twongirwe, a community health worker from western Uganda. “Refugees have poor sanitation and poor toilet design, and this is confirmed by multiple cholera outbreaks in the past, some to the level of 153 cases from 3 villages being treated with only one resulting fatality.” Since freedom…

By Eddie Ssemakula Husn Hussein, a pharmacist and climate change campaigner, came up with a novel local solution to catch plastic in Kampala’s drains after observing how it affected the daily life of Kampalans. He already knows how hard it is to get money for many innovations—many of which, unlike…

By Eddie Ssemakula Winnie Nabukeera, a self-driven nurse and sonographer, came second in the HIHA Nurse of the Year category. She established the Little Winnie Foundation, an organization that provides holistic empowerment to nurses and medical professionals through soft skills, entrepreneurship, and skills development—an endeavour she regards as her greatest.…

By Eddie Ssemakula The African continent is plagued with lifestyle diseases, making professional interventions imperative. Despite growing up in a small hamlet in southwest Uganda called Mushanga, Dr Bahendeka has become one of the most exceptional diabetes experts. a professor at Uganda Martyrs University and Mother Kevin Post Graduate Medical…

By Eddie Ssemakula Veronicah Karuhanga, the founder of Golden Age Elderly Care Homes Uganda has a taste of what it means to persevere, in a context where elderly care is often abandoned as a peripheral national concern. She has garnered 10 years of experience and is doing things in this…

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As a volunteer at the casualty ward in Mulago Specialized Hospital, Jonathan Nkalubo,  runners-up for 2023 HIHA Doctor of the Year has almost seen it all in Ugandan healthcare. Yet he is often energized, thanks to the patient stories that point back to his work, “watching someone arrive here unconscious,…

By Eddie Ssemakula As a member of several Ministry of Health policy committees, once a member of the Global Fund national interventions, and similar country coordinating mechanisms representing civil society. Dr Lydia Mungherera has more to say about policy than anything else about Uganda’s health sector. She helped bring alot…