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One person yesterday died of suspected Ebola at Mulago Hospital as 12 new cases of the haemorrhagic fever were registered at Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale District, health officials confirmed last night.

Permanent secretary Asuman Lukwago said the latest fatality was a case from Luzira, a Kampala suburb, and the patient checked-in with diarrhea and vomiting.
“The relatives wanted to take the body but we stopped them because we have sent samples to Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe to establish if he died of Ebola or some other infection.”

his development came amidst unconfirmed reports that the national referral hospital was separately handling eight suspected Ebola cases following the death last month at the facility of a clinical officer referred from Kibaale.

Last evening, when Daily Monitor visited, hospital staff were erecting an isolation centre at the former cholera treatment just outside the fence of new Mulago to handle suspected cases. In a statement issued yesterday, the acting Director General of Health Services, Dr Dennis Lwamafa, said: “The Ministry of Health response teams in Kampala are on the alert to respond to any suspected cases in and around Kampala.”

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They are in the middle of battling a deadly disease outbreak but health workers at Kagadi Hospital feel they have been abandoned by their seniors in Kampala.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, several health workers bemoaned the shortage of protective gear and drugs—and also wondered if they will get a special allowance for putting their own lives on line.

Speaking on their behalf, Mr Stephen Mfashingabo, the vice chairperson Kibaale District Ebola task force, said: “We appeal to the President to intervene. We have serious financial constraints which are hindering our efforts to deal with the disease.”

To illustrate the dire shortage of resources, Mr Mfashingabo points to how they were stuck with two bodies of patients who died of Ebola on Tuesday—since the hospital cars lacked fuel.
“We were only rescued by Dr Okot, of World Health Organisation who offered his money to buy fuel,” Mr Mfashingabo said.

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08-03-2012

GENEVA, Switzerland — The latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has killed 16 people in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, increasing the previous toll by one.

"Today we have 50 suspected cases and 16 dead," WHO spokesman Tarek Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva.

For the time being the epidemic was restricted to the west of the country, Jasarevic said, adding that a single case reported in Kampala in the south of the country was the result of an infected person being brought to the capital.

Ebola broke out in early July in Uganda's western Kibale district, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo...

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August 3, 2012

Kagadi, Uganda (CNN) -- One of five prisoners receiving treatment for a suspected case of Ebola virus in Uganda escaped overnight Friday from the hospital at the center of the outbreak, a health official said.

"Should his results come back and he is positive, that causes us a lot of worry. So right now, we have resolved that the remaining prisoners will be cuffed on the beds for fear that they might also escape," said Dr. Jackson Amune, commissioner at the Ministry of Health...