Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Soroti Regional Referral Hospital has discharged eleven COVID-19 patients. The hospital received the first four cases of COVID-19 on May 25th from Kumi district who were contacts of the Bukedea businessman who tested positive at Elegu border, Amuru district. After a week, seven more …
Read More »Experts explain why strict hand hygiene couldn’t be sustained
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With the zeal of hand washing going down months into coronavirus disease transmission in the country, experts have stated that it was inevitable as people were only acting in shock following announcements of a strange killer disease. Hand hygiene alone is touted as having …
Read More »OPM resolves ‘conflict’ between Health Ministry, Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has embarked on a process to mend the relationship between Makerere University and the Ministry of Health whose officials are reportedly fighting over COVID-19 cash. The process started with a crisis meeting presided over by the …
Read More »Five COVID-19 patients discharged from Mbarara hospital
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have been discharged from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. The discharged patients include three who were transferred from Kasensero in Kyotera district and two cases from Isingiro district. Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Director Dr Celestine Barigye said that …
Read More »Medical teams at lower health centers exposed to COVID-19
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical teams at lower level health centres in Masaka district are at risk of contracting the contagious Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) due to the absence of safety gear. The lower health centres have registered an increase in the number of patients in recent weeks, due to …
Read More »Uganda testing blood plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients in search for treatment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Laura Nagasha Barumba, Uganda’s first patient to recover from coronavirus disease also known as COVID-19 was among the first one to respond to the Ministry of Health’s call for blood donation. As she spoke to URN at Mulago Hospital last evening, her blood had just …
Read More »Dexamethasone becomes first drug to show highest efficacy in COVID-19 treatment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Results of a study released on Tuesday show that if common anti allergy drug dexamethasone is given in low doses to patients battling serious COVID- 9, a third of them can be saved from death. Conducted by researchers at Oxford university and part of a …
Read More »Elderly, sick, essential workers will get virus vaccine first: US
Washington, United States | AFP | The United States plans to give priority to the elderly, those with pre-existing conditions and essential workers once there is a vaccine against COVID-19, a senior Trump administration official said Tuesday. Under Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the US government is aiming to deliver 300 million …
Read More »Steroid breakthrough raises virus hopes, despite China outbreak
Paris, France | AFP | Britain is to start giving seriously ill coronavirus patients a basic steroid treatment hailed as a “major breakthrough” Tuesday capable of reducing the global pandemic’s death toll as worrying new outbreaks surfaced. A new and “extremely severe” cluster of cases in Beijing cast doubt over efforts …
Read More »Entebbe hospital workers gain confidence in treating COVID-19 patients
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical staff at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital are now more confident in handling COVID-19 patients after more than three months on the job. The facility has handled over 170 patients since Saturday, March 21, when the first case of COVID-19 was announced. Of these, …
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