Health officials at Kagadi Hospital wearing Ebola
protective gears.
Monday, July 30 2012 at 14:13
President Museveni on Monday banned all physical contact after a victim of a
deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus was reported in the capital Kampala for the
first time..
...Two cases have since been reported in the capital, with one
victim reported dead in Kampala's Mulago Hospital, he said, calling on people
not to shake hands to avoid the spread of the killer virus.
"Ebola spreads by contact when you contact each other physically...
avoid shaking of hands that can cause contact through sweat, which can cause
problems," Museveni said.
..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... .
A clinical officer at Kagadi hospital Clare Muhumuza and
her four month old baby also succumbed to the virus.
Muhumuza who treated most of the patients died on
Tuesday at Mulago hospital, while her child died on Saturday...
Dr Dan Kyamanywa, the Kibaale district Health
officer, says two people are admitted with the disease at the newly established
Kagadi hospital Ebola isolation ward. Although refusing to name the victims, the
health officer explains that one is a relative of the deceased clinical
officer while the other is a distance relative of Yostus Isoke’s
family.The patient has been close to the family during the illness
thus contracting the disease..
News of the Ebola outbreak has caused panic at Kagadi
hospital as some patients and their attendants first fled the wards on Saturday
for fear of catching the disease. By Sunday morning the always full outpatient
department at the hospital was almost empty