Tag: Ebola outbreak

Six health workers at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have tested positive for Ebola Virus Disease.  According to Herbert Luswata, the General Secretary of the Uganda Medical Association, three are medical ...

The arrival of a body of a 22-year-old student suspected to have succumbed to Ebola hemorrhagic fever created panic in Namulonge on Tuesday as Ministry of Health burial teams don ...

Kyegegwa District has heightened health surveillance following an outbreak of Ebola in the neighboring Mubende District. The Health Ministry last week confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in Mubende District after a ...

A suspected Ebola patient has been admitted to an isolation ward at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.  Doctor Edwin Okello, the in-charge of the Epidemiology Ward said that the male patient ...

Kasangati residents are on edge following the death of a patient at Kasangati Health Centre IV who presented with ebola-like symptoms. According to Dr Ssejibwa Peter, the deceased is a ...

The World Health Organization -WHO  has urged health workers in Uganda not to consider using Ebola therapeutic medicines used to treat patients in the neighboring DR Congo, saying these will ...

As 34 Medical workers on the ebola frontlines at Mubende regional referral hospital went on strike on Monday. We managed to get through to one of them to get an ...

The number of people admitted at Mubende Referral Hospital suspected of suffering from Ebola has increased from 21 to 30.  Health workers at Mubende hospital said that the patients were ...

A suspected Ebola patient has been admitted to an isolation ward at Warr Health center IV in Warr Town Council, Zombo District.  Richard Bayo, the Regional Disease Surveillance Officer at ...

People visiting Mubende Regional Referral Hospital for treatment or any other services will go through screening as part of the measure to mitigate the spread of the Ebola virus. The ...