The aircraft commenced its journey last night in London with Acana and 91 Ugandans from UK and Ireland on board and made a stopover in Addis Ababa where 58 others who travelled from Rome, Iceland, Ireland and Egypt were waiting for a connecting flight.
The disorder characterized by seizures and convulsions in a woman with high blood pressure in pregnancy is a potentially dangerous complication often results in serious or even fatal difficulties for both mother and baby.
Raphael Omony told journalists shortly after delivering his petition to the council on Thursday that the hospital transfused the bleeding mother with a lot of blood, which affected her Pulmonary hypertension alias blood pressure.
Dr. Richard Mugahi, the National Coordinator for Quarantine Centers in the Health Ministry, says the five returnees including a child were exempted from institutional quarantine because of terminal illness.
Dr Katumba Ssentongo, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC) Registrar said that the tribunal that will sit at the hospital will first hear testimonies from the baby’s family before questioning the six doctors at the hospital.
The confirmed cases are part of 1,958 samples that were tested yesterday. All of the confirmed cases are Ugandans. Seven of the confirmed cases are contacts who were picked from Amuru and Tororo while the other cases were of two truck drivers from the Malaba point of entry
Atwine says that with the installation of new equipment and expansion of the hospital, the Ministry will elevate the facility to a regional referral hospital.
Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi Region Police spokesperson, says the Officer in Charge of Katete Police Post, Charles Kyazze is being investigated for extorting Shillings 210,000 from someone he arrested on Tuesday.
But a survey conducted by Uganda Radio Network in communities in Kyotera district has established that the general use of the facemasks is still so low.
“Find, isolate, test and care for every case, trace and quarantine every contact, equip and train health workers and educate and empower communities to protect themselves and others. Not testing alone. Not physical distancing alone. Not contact tracing alone. Not masks alone. Do it all.”
