Posted Monday, July 30 2012 at 23:30
In Summary
- President advises against physical contact by avoiding shaking hands and kissing as number of Ebola patients in district increases from three on Sunday to seven
Ugandan authorities on Monday put under quarantine, three villages,
and some medical staff at the national referral hospital — Mulago —
after an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus at the weekend killed 14
people.
President Yoweri Museveni and health officials on Monday confirmed two cases
have since been reported in the capital, with one victim reported dead in
Kampala’s Mulago Hospital after the latest outbreak started in Uganda’s western
district of Kibaale, 125 miles west of Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from
the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago Hospital are in
quarantine after “at least one or two cases” were taken there, with one later
dying from the virus.
The villages were identified as Nyanswiga, Kibaari, Kisindiizi, all
in the western Uganda district of Kibaale...
..Meanwhile the number of Ebola patients in Kibaale District
has increased from three as of Sunday to seven on Monday and they are all
currently admitted to an isolation ward at Kagadi hospital..
Another 38-year-old female, a sister to the deceased clinical officer is
still admitted at Kagadi Hospital where a ward has been designated for Ebola
patients.
On Monday, the Uganda ministry of health officials banned any further
referral of Ebola patients from Kibaale district to Mulago hospital in Kampala
with immediate effect as a way to contain the spread.
“The disease must be handled locally to contain the spread, and we
cannot accept this stampede at Mulago because all services will be at stand
still,” said Dr Lwamafa.
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