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Kwa mujibu wa takwimu za Wizara ya Afya, Dkt. John Grace Walugembe anakuwa mhudumu wa 5 wa Afya kufariki kutokana na ugonjwa huo uliosababisha vifo 20 na maambukizi kufikia watu 58
Katika kukabiliana na kasi ya maambukizi Rais Yoweri Museveni ametangaza kuziweka Karantini ya siku 21 wilaya 2 za Mubende na kassanda kwa kuzuia usafiri wa binafsi, kuweka amri ya kutotoka nje usiku na kufunga maeneo ya umma
Shirika la Afya Duniani (WHO) limetangaza kuanza majaribio ya Chanjo 8 wiki hii ili kupambana na kirusi cha Ebola aina ya Sudan kilichoonesha Usugu kwenye Chanjo ya awali.
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Ebola has claimed the life of another health worker as the country struggles to contain the spread of the virus.
Mubende Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Rosemary Byabashaija confirmed the death identifying the deceased as Dr John Grace Walugembe who succumbed to the disease late Sunday.
“It’s too sad to lose such important people in the community”, she told Monitor on phone.
Dr Walugembe, a laboratory technician at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital and a proprietor of Life Care Medical Clinic in Kirungi South Division in Mubende municipality is the fifth health worker to die from Ebola since the latest outbreak in Uganda was confirmed on September 20.
On October 10, the Mubende Ebola task force together with a health surveillance team closed Dr Walugembe’s clinic over attending to a woman who later died from his clinic with signs and symptoms of Ebola.
“We closed the clinic which had been attending to Ebola suspects after a woman died from that clinic bleeding from the mouth and nose on October 9, 2022,” RDC Byabasaija said on October 11.
Dr Walugembe was also picked from his clinic on Monday and later tested positive for Ebola. By the time of his death, he was receiving treatment from Mubende Regional Referral Hospital.
The case-fatality rate for the disease ranges from 25-90 percent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This is higher than that of Covid-19 whose case-fatality rate is at least 3 percent.
According to the Health Ministry, EVD is transmitted through contact with the blood, stool or fluids of an infected person and objects that have been contaminated with body fluids from an infected person.
The known symptoms of Ebola include high body temperatures, fatigue, chest pain, diarrhea, vomiting, unexplained bleeding, yellowing of the eyes. Bleeding is usually a late presentation after the above symptoms.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday imposed a lockdown on two districts at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak, barring personal travel, ordering a night curfew and shuttering public places.
The health ministry says there have been 19 deaths and 58 confirmed cases of the often-fatal viral hemorrhagic fever since the outbreak was first reported on September 20.
Authorities say the outbreak is concentrated in the central districts of Mubende and Kassanda and has not reached Kampala, the capital of 1.5 million, despite a husband and wife testing positive there.
In a televised address, Museveni on Saturday ordered Mubende and Kassanda into immediate lockdown, imposing a dusk to dawn curfew, banning travel and closing markets, bars and churches for 21 days.
"I now direct as follow: movements now into and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts are now prohibited," said Museveni, a guerilla leader turned president who has ruled Uganda since 1986.
"If you are in Mubende and Kassanda districts, stay there for 21 days."
Cargo trucks will still be allowed to enter and leave the two areas, but all other transport -- personal or otherwise -- was suspended, he said.
Museveni had already ordered traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola and ordered police to arrest anyone suspected of having contracted the virus who refused to go into isolation.
Ebola is spread through bodily fluids, with common symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhea.
Outbreaks are difficult to contain, especially in urban environments.
Uganda's last recorded fatality from a previous Ebola outbreak was in 2019.
The particular strain now circulating in Uganda is known as the Sudan Ebola virus, for which there is currently no vaccine.
The World Health Organization says clinical trials could start within weeks on drugs to combat that strain.
