One positive Covid-19 patient has been admitted to Mbale Clinical Research Institute for treatment, the Health Ministry has resolved.
The admitted patient is a truck driver who had come from Kenya to pick cement in Tororo and tested positive.
Mbale standby health workers who are working on the patient, say they are in “good mental conditions to treat” any confirmed Covid-19 cases within Eastern Uganda.
Elsewhere, two other covid-19 patients which include; a Ugandan male aged 24 and a male Burundian refugee aged 21 have been admitted to Masaka Regional Referral hospital for treatment.
Both patients are contacts of a Burundian refugee, 46, who was transferred to the facility from Rakai District last week.
According to the director Masaka Regional Referral hospital, Dr Nathan Onyachi, the new patients were received on Thursday evening.
“Our isolation centre is currently taking care of three Covid-19 patients and we have put them on treatment,” he said by telephone on Friday morning.
The first patient reportedly entered Uganda in early March seeking for asylum and was taken to Nakivale Refugee Resettlement camp before sneaking out of the camp. Later, he reportedly went to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, but on coming back, he illegally entered through Mutukula border and was arrested by police at Ntantamukye Village in Rakai District.
Dr Onyachi said the first patient is stable and responding to treatment.
“We are treating the symptoms the patient had and when he completes his second week on Tuesday, we will test him again to see if he is positive or negative,” he said.
Dr Onyachi said they are currently having one Covid-10 suspected case as they wait for the results.
