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Uganda Private Medical Practitioners' Association (UPMPA)'s vision is Accessible and Quality Health A forum also for advocacy and networking.

The only association that brings together private health practitioners in Uganda. A forum for learning, coming together and continuous medical education.

10/11/2021

Uganda Private Medical Practitioners Association UPMPA has been revamped and re-energised. Let us roll

26/01/2020

A Mid sized health facility is looking for a nurse: enrolled or registered. Attractive salary awaits. Please call Dr. Mukuzi M. on 0751311600 or 0772982115.

14/03/2019

Forget the 6 Killer diseases, from the list you can see how Uganda National EXPANDED Program on Immunisation (UNEPI) has expanded!!! The numbers also speak volumes.

BTW did you know that there is a law that can take you to prison for 7 years or fine or both if you refuse to immunise children under your care.

Now you know spread the message. Next I will tackle how Measles outbreak happen despite immunisation

13/01/2019

OKUMENYA! Literally meaning to break, crack. Now no size length or strength of a male pe**le organ can crack, break or widen the pelvic bones, so that the baby gets an easy exit. No way!

Whether a pregnant woman gets lots of s*xual activity or non at all, the cephalo-pelvic disproportion (CPD) will depend on the size of the baby's head and the pelvic bone.

So even if the man 'breaks' four times per day, this won't help at all. Go do Antenatal visits....

11/11/2018

History of Surgery:
In the era of Hippocrates and Apollo the physician, even embedded in the Hippocrates' Oath, it was a taboo for a physician, OK, read a Doctor to shed blood.

Then things changed! Some, if not most afflictions were inside where no drug could clear except by a scalpel. In fact we give most Surgeons the title of MISTER, instead of Dr.

Surgery became successful because of three factors:

1. Management of pain. The discovery of anaesthesia and other strong analgesics, was a tremendous movement in surgery.

2. The ability to regulate bleeding especially in the discovery of bleed transfusion. Blood is a crucial issue in the hemostasis of any organism.

3. One of the less praised is the ability to sterilise equipment and management of infection n infection control. The wide range of sterilisation, infection prevention methods and techniques, but most was the discovery of antibiotics.

Here ends today's topic.

22/10/2018

SURGE

57% versus 97% of men and women respectively in Uganda know their HIV status. This has been dragging behind efforts to achieve 90-90-90 targets. That 90% of all Ugandans know their HIV status, 90% of those with the virus be on treatment and 90% of those on treatment have suppressed viral load.

So we have now SURGED our efforts. We get one HIV positive person and ask her: whom did you sleep with in the last 14 days? Usually its a list. Then in confidence we call the first person, test him and ask: whom did you sleep with, OK have s*x with in the last 14 days? Another list, and on we continue.

If we call you please know we mean good. And the numbers have been overwhelming.

Unsolicited advise please go out there and test! Have a healthy tested day

23/09/2018

You can not use the same toilet that has been used by your daughter/son in law. To pit it mildly: you can't drop in the same sh****le as your daughter in-law if you r a man, or son in-law if you are a woman. This is according to a culture in Uganda.

Do you know any culture or taboo, that is encouraging unhygienic practices? Please be a good citizen and drop them here.

I will be waiting....

13/08/2018

Double entendre

My friend is loosing his job. Working in an NGO, they promised to test and treat over 3,000 persons against HIV in 12 months. That sounded so simple given the population of the area they had identified and the prevalence rates of 7% nationally.

Three months down the road, people are mainly testing negative. They have managed only 200.

Now if you are a health worker, you know that most people are either doing retests or mainly reporting Negative. Where I work we mark Positive tests in RED and when you open the register there r so few REDS.

This is what we call a Plateau in an epidemic, we are very happy to have such an observation.

The take home message is simple. When you turn Positive, its no longer about the percentages or many cumbersome epidemiological terms, it is YOU and your family.

So keep that ZIP up and fastened

24/07/2018

If you were, God forbid, involved in an emergency say Road Traffic Accident (RTA) and you are bleeding profusely, you have a right to go to any health facility and be 'stabilized'. After that, in case you are in a Private for (or not) profit, you are supposed to be asked: should we continue with the care or you don't have money we send you to a Public Health Facility where there is no paying?

Take home: emergency services in Uganda is free. Please don't die looking for a Public Facility.

18/07/2018

If you work in a high traffic health facility you know there are certain periods where some diseases or conditions are more prone than others.

I was reviewing our data and observed that we last managed an abortion around April. Now around Jan and after Valentine we get lots of Post Abortion Care aka PAC. Knowing that only 9% of all coitus result in a pregnancy, I want to tell you, there is a lot of coitus around this period.

In case you need proper and long term Family Planning methods, please come to Uganda Private Medical Practitioners health facilities. Look for BlueStar or GoodLife clinics too.

09/06/2018

In need of a nurse, willing to work upcountry. Please contact 0751311600

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