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Rakai and Kyotera districts are struggling to curb an upsurge in
malaria cases. Records at the respective health departments indicate that Malaria
cases have been on the rise since May, and the trend has dragged on.
Patrick Ssekidde, the Principal Administrator of Rakai Hospital
says that the facility has for overtime been registering increase in malaria
cases, which is now being handled as an outbreak.
In June, the hospital registered 749 malaria cases, a number higher than the
monthly average of 362 patients attended to in the normal months.
Ssekidde indicates that the situation is no different from the
lower health units. He says that they have already notified the Ministry of
Health and other partners to scale up interventions towards curbing the
problem.
Harriet Nakafeero, the Malaria Control Program Focal Person for Kyotera
district says their teams are carrying out vigorous public sensitization to
reawaken communities into embracing the known malaria preventive approaches on
top of redistributing the available drugs to improve capacities of case
management in health centres.
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Luganda
//Cue in: “obujanjabi bwa Malaria….
Cue out; ……tezifuna wezizalira.”//
Nakafeero has however indicated that they are still faced with
challenge of operators of private health facilities some of whom are not fully
observing the recommended test and treat malaria management approach, which are
frustrating efforts to contain the outbreak in the shortest period possible.
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Luganda
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Cue out; …..ky’ebakujanjaba kituufu.”//
Dr Edward Muwanga, the Kyotera District Health Officer says that
the outbreak is overstretching their drug stocks, especially in the lower
health units.
Although Dr Muwanga remains mute on the deaths arising out of the outbreak,
he indicates that the Ministry of Health has sent teams to assess the situation.
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Cue out; …..NMS nayo okuleeta.”//
He says that although the studies are undergoing to establish the escalation,
they suspect it to a result of climate change that favours mosquitoes that
spreads malaria.
