Journalists in the region have been urged to intensify public awareness campaigns against unsafe abortion in order to reduce the growing number of complications and fatalities
Image: Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital – Mbarara Hospital – Wikipedia
The article reports that 6% of maternal deaths in Uganda result from (unsafe) abortion complications. And that three out of every ten women admitted to the gynaecology ward at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital present with abortion-related complications.
Unfortunately, the only thing the Ugandan health services can offer is prevention of unintended and unwanted pregnancies because the head of state of Uganda is absolutely anti-abortion. As we know, this helps but it does not resolve the main problem: the need for safe abortion.
SOURCE: New Vision. 16 March 2026. The article itself had only 84 views.
The website of New Vision, who put this report on the internet, prevents anyone from copying even a word, let alone the photograph of a doctor speaking to a group of journalists. The above text is only a part of the report that I retyped by hand. You can go to the report yourself to read the whole at: https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/health/medics-raise-alarm-over-rising-abortion-relat-NV_229947_032026