Six health workers at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have reportedly tested positive for Ebola Virus Disease.
According to Herbert Luswata, the General Secretary of the Uganda Medical Association, three are medical workers, two are interns and one medical student.
Ms. Rosemary Byabashaija, the Mubende Resident District Commissioner says that currently, there are 42 people admitted at the Ebola Center in Mubende with 16 people tested and confirmed to be positive for Ebola Virus.
She said that one died bringing to six while 19 others died in the villages making 25, the total number of deaths.
Ms. Byabashaija who calls for more sensitization among community members some of whom attach Ebola to witchcraft, said that at least 300 contact persons have since been traced from the villages and that they have created more space for the suspected and confirmed Ebola patients after an isolation center was created at Madudu Health Center III. Ms. Byabashaija speaking……
She calls for collaborated efforts against the disease she said was preventive. END