Posted by Sandra Birungi on August 1, 2012
The ebola virus which has gripped Uganda and
causing a lot of anxiety has reached Kanungu district and has so far killed one
person.Ebola first hit Kibaale district claiming so far 14 people and rendering many others vulnerable to the virus which spreads rapidly and kills just as fast. President Museveni issued a national address urging all people to be vigilant as the precaution is being taken. But, in the meanwhile, people were advised to resist from intimate relationships, hand shaking and public places which could be prone to the virus.
Panicked residents of Kanugu district got the shock after one of their health workers who was working in Kigadi died from the Ebola virus. Kemitumba Mackline died Monday July 30th and her body was taken for burial in Kanungu district where she was buried yesterday in a hasty burial.
A Kanugu district health officer, Sister Florence Rwabahima said she did not know about the death until she heard from radio that the body of Mackline was being transported to Kanungu from Kibaale district where she had died from. She was buried in Nkunda village in Nyanga Sub County, Kanungu district.
“I tried to block the transportation of the body advising that she should be buried immediately in Kibale but my efforts were fruitless,” Rwabahima said.
With the transportation of an Ebola corpse, chances are that relatives who had gotten involved in the transported had contracted the virus and are prone to Ebola. “The people who handled the transportation had no protective gear and must have had contact with the victim and that is itself enough to pass on the disease,” she said.
http://www.ugandapicks.com/2012/08/ebola-reaches-kanungu-district-69452.html
