The Ministry of Education has revealed that a total of 23 Ebola cases have been confirmed among school-going children across the country. Addressing journalists at Uganda Media Center on Tuesday morning, the state minister for primary education, Joyce Kaducu revealed that 8 of the children have died while 5 had fully recovered and 16 were […]
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a rare but severe, often fatal illness in humans. Ebola causes an acute, serious illness that is often fatal if untreated. EVD first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in what is now Nzara, South Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, DRC. […]
The Ministry of Health in Uganda is looking for about 300 people who are said to be contacts of the 15 Ebola cases confirmed in Greater Kampala. “We have already about 300 we are following up,” Mr Emmanuel Ainebyona, the ministry spokesperson, told this publication in a telephone interview yesterday. He said contacts are being […]
The Uganda Medical Association President, Dr. Samuel Oledo has recommended that stringent measures including a lockdown be considered for Kampala. This comes when Ebola cases in greater Kampala have risen to 15 in the last 48 hours. Currently, Uganda has 90 cumulative cases with 28 active cases on admission and 28 lives lost. Meanwhile, the […]
The European Union has mobilised more than Shs11bn in further emergency funding to support Uganda’s response to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. The outbreak declared in September has since claimed 28 lives with the cumulative confirmed cased now standing at over 70, 14 of them reported in Kampala alone over the past 48 hours. According […]
Kampala International University (KIU) Medicine student Dr. Mohammed Ali dies of Ebola. Dr. Mohammed was pursuing a Master’s degree in Surgery at KIU western campus. According to Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, the Minister of Health in Uganda, the deceased was identified as Dr. Mohammed Ali, a 37 year old Tanzanian national. “I regret to […]
Across West Africa, Ebola-related deaths are on the rise. Experts estimate that this devastating virus–which claims more than 50 percent of all its victims–has the potential to double its reach every three weeks. In the worst affected countries including Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the public health infrastructure is under strain. That is why we […]
Kampala International University student was over the weekend retained at Entebbe International airport after showing symptoms of lethal Ebola disease. The student whose names were kept a secret was travelling from Lagos Nigeria with Kenyan airways. According to the commissioner for Healthy Services in Healthy Ministry, Dr. Anthony Mbonye, explained that “the suspect started vomiting […]