Teheca nurse team

What You Should Know About Cancer.

  • What You Should Know About Cancer.

    What You Should Know About Cancer.

    It’s a disease in which body cells divide abnormally and uncontrollably thus destroying the body tissues. Cancer occurs when genes stop controlling the way cells divide

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  • 10 Items In  Hospital Bag For Pregnant Mothers.

    10 Items In Hospital Bag For Pregnant Mothers.

    A hospital bag is one that every family should behave handy, it’s more important for couples and families that are expecting a new baby soon. Expectant mothers are expected to have a preparedness plan for the time when the baby is about to pop. At a bare minimum mothers are expected to have a mama kit which includes the material that mothers use in the labor ward. Most of the things in the mama kit are single-use and are only for the mother and the health workers who are helping a mother in giving birth. On top of the mama

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  • Colic Relief Tips for Parents

    Colic Relief Tips for Parents

    If the crying does not stop but intensifies and persists throughout the day or night, it may be caused by colic.  About one-fifth of all babies develop colic, usually between the second and fourth weeks.

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  • 5 Steps To Look Like The SuperMom You Are

    5 Steps To Look Like The SuperMom You Are

    looking fatigued. Skincare after delivery is important. Follow this 5 step quick daily regime for your skin and hair to continue looking like a Supermom

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  • Top 10 Tips To Take Care Of Your Skin And Hair Post Pregnancy

    Top 10 Tips To Take Care Of Your Skin And Hair Post Pregnancy

    During pregnancy, the body goes through different physical changes. It makes postpartum skincare and haircare on the top of the list of many women who have delivered their babies.

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  • 5 Tips for Dealing With Morning Sickness

    Morning sickness is a common pregnancy symptom that affects many women during the first trimester. It can be uncomfortable, inconvenient, and even debilitating for some women. However, there are ways to deal with morning sickness and alleviate some of the discomforts

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  • Valentine’s Day Ideas For A Pregnant Couple

    Valentine’s Day Ideas For A Pregnant Couple

    When your partner is pregnant, it can be an even more meaningful and memorable day or challenging to come up with unique and thoughtful ways to celebrate the day.

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  • What You Should Know About Jaundice

    What You Should Know About Jaundice

    Newborn jaundice is a yellowing of a baby’s skin and eyes. Newborn jaundice is very common and can occur when babies have a high level of bilirubin, a yellow pigment produced during the normal breakdown of red blood cells. In older babies and adults, the liver processes bilirubin, which then passes through the intestinal tract. However, a newborn’s still-developing liver may not be mature enough to remove bilirubin. What causes newborn jaundice? Babies at the highest risk for developing newborn jaundice are: A baby whose blood type isn’t compatible with that of its mother can develop a buildup of antibodies

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  • How a Sick Loved Affects Your Team Output.

    Human Resource is the greatest asset of any company, a lot of investment is put into hiring, training and maintaining top employees at a company. However there comes a time that, no matter what you do, this great employee has to either leave or take a couple of days off. Depending on the time or season of the business, this can greatly affect the operations of the company and lead to financial loss among other issues. Why do you have to quit? why do you decide to take leave at this time? Can you wait till after [insert season] season? Sometimes

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  • Need for Care Assistants for Expecting Mothers & New Mothers

    It was late last year, I was about 7months pregnant, i was in the expecting mothers group, at that stage I had become so weak that I couldn’t wash my clothes, do house work by myself and my appetite hard increased to a bigger extent, with all those changes I was all by myself and struggling to meet all my anxieties, at some point I got complications which almost damaged my baby because there was a lot to handle yet I was alone. A few months later I gave birth but this time round the situation just worsened. I gave birth normally

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  • What is palliative care?

    Palliative care is care that helps people live their life as fully and as comfortable as possible when living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. Palliative care identifies and treats symptoms which may be physical, emotional, spiritual or social. Because palliative care is based on individual needs, the services offered will differ but may include: Relief of pain and other symptoms e.g. vomiting, shortness of breath Resources such as equipment needed to aid care at home Assistance for families to come together to talk about sensitive issues Links to other services such as home help and financial support Support for

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  • The Myth About Cause of Peptic Ulcers

    What Is a Peptic Ulcer? It’s a myth that spicy foods and stress cause peptic ulcers. A peptic ulcer is a type of sore that develops in the digestive system. The word “ulcer” means open sore, and “peptic” means that acid is the cause of the sore. However, this terminology is from a prior era when all ulcers in the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum were thought to be caused by acid damage. Nowadays, we know that most ulcers are not caused by excessive acid, so the term “peptic ulcer” is somewhat misleading. Types of Peptic Ulcers The most common kinds

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  • MasterCard Innovation Express

    After 48 hours of the innovation express that was organized by the Makerere University Business School(MUBS) Entrepreneurship in conjunction with the MUBS ICT center sponsored by MasterCard and MasterCard Labs, Teheca came out victorious as one of the two team that had a compiling innovation and business plan. So what does this mean for Teheca, the two winning teams where both awarded prices of USD 2500 to continue the development of their product the Teheca app , a mobile app aimed at providing an alternative source of timely health care workforce for the Uganda community by creating access to qualified health workers by

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  • Youth Friendly Sexual Reproductive Health Services

    Teheca app is a mobile platform that aims at providing access to alternative source of health care to the youth and new mothers by creating access to caring and qualified health workers. The platform that runs on Android, web and SMS will ensure that the challenge faced but he youth are easily circumnavigated by ensuring a safe and youth friendly online environment, Through the platform the youth in Uganda are able to access sexual reproductive health information through the many articles that are posted there, they will be able to find qualified personnel that can advise them on prevention and protection

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