Another person has succumbed to Ebola after a long battle with the deadly fever at the isolation facility at Kagadi government hospital in Kibaale district.
This brings the total number of people who have died of the deadly hemorrhagic disease to 17. The deceased’s identity has however been withheld by the health ministry.
The ministry’s public relations officer Rukia Nakamatte says since she was admitted in the isolation camp her condition had never improved and her chances of survival were minimal.
Nakamatte adds that the deceased was HIV positive and by the time she contracted Ebola she had just had an abortion thus making her immune system very weak. She says now only one Ebola patient remains admitted at the isolation facility.
Nakamatte adds that 3 suspected Ebola cases are currently undergoing monitoring and their samples have already been taken to the Uganda Virus Research Institute for tests.
