Uganda News

Dr. Sam Zaramba the Director General of Health Services represents Uganda on the Executive Board of World Health Organisation in Geneva Switzerland

Dr. Sam Zaramba has been appointed as Chairperson of the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation for the years 2009 and 2010.

Avril 2008. The Executive Board is composed of 34 countries represented by persons who are technically qualified in the field designated by the Member States that have been elected to serve the World Health Assembly States.

The WHO Representative for Uganda Dr Joaquim Saweka paid a two-days working visit to Soroti district, Eastern Uganda to check on the implementation of the Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS) project that was initiated by WHO and the Ministry of Health.

When cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever were recently identified in a remote mining area in western Uganda, WHO and the Ugandan Ministry of Health immediately began an intense surveillance and response effort. They were supported by scientists and medical experts from the Uganda Virology Research Institute (UVRI), the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa and the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

13 April 2004, Kampala -- The out-going WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba has advised whoever takes over from to continue the "hard work, be credible, transparent and confident". He said this early April in Uganda while attending the International Summit on Nutrition and Food Security.