Daily Monitor
Saturday April 17 2021
Left: A health worker explains to an expectant mother why she needs to regularly visit the health centre for antenatal services at UMC Hospital in Mukono. PHOTO/Promise Twinamukye
Summary
Excessive bleeding accounts for 46 per cent of all registered maternal deaths. Hypertensive disorders stand at 11 per cent, followed by infection of the genital tract and abortion related complications.
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In 2017, Catherine Akol, a resident of Jimos village, Losilang Parish, in Kotido District, Karamoja region delivered her first born by a caesarean section.
She was advised to have her next baby in a hospital. In the wee hours of January 17, 2020, a semblance of labour started. Since the pain was not intense, she and her husband Henry Angelo embarked on the journey to Kotido Health Centre IV .
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UN baffled as endowed Uganda fails to beat hunger
December 11, 2020 Children receiving food aid in Karamoja recently
United Nations agencies are baffled as to why hunger and undernutrition still remain a challenge in Uganda despite enormous opportunities and abundant resources in the country.
Uganda is one of the countries that were expected to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030 as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number two. But since 2015, there seems to be no progress, despite a slight increase in agricultural output, according to the UN.
Uganda boasts of almost half (47 per cent) of all the arable land in East Africa, giving it a huge agricultural competitive advantage in the region and Africa. But like much of the continent, it has not progressed, and the World Bank and UN attribute this to a lack of investment and financing to take subsiste