The COVID-19 Isolation center at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital is to be renamed the Infectious Diseases and Research Centre.
The Construction of the Isolation center that started during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 cost up to two billion Shillings.
The centre which is now awaiting commissioning was constructed with the support of 243 million Shillings from Mbarara University of Science and Technology, 1.4 billion Shillings from Global Collaborative-a US organization and 800 million from the Government of Uganda.
The Director of Mbarara Regional and Referral Hospital, Dr Celestine Barigye says they decided to shift to the center early because the previous Isolation Centre was not conducive and also small to accommodate the number of patients from the region.
Barigye says the new 44-bed capacity Isolation Centre is spacious enough and has 24 staff that include doctors and Nurses trained to handle infectious diseases. Dr. Barigye on Isolation center…
Halson Kagure, the Hospital Public Relations Officer says that during the Ebola outbreak last year, 10 suspected cases were admitted but fortunately, results returned negative. END.