Teso region has discharged eleven patients who recovered from the deadly Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in Teso region has discharged eleven patients who recovered from the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The patients including three women and one girl were part of the first 10 contacts of a businessman from Bukedea who tested positive for COVID-19 last week and were taken to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital for treatment.
The group that came into contact with the man was quarantined in Kumi district and a few days later their results turned positive which saw them being admitted at Soroti referral hospital.
Joyce Moriku, the State Minister for Primary Health Care who presided over the discharge of the 11patients thanked both the medical team in Soroti and the district COVID-19 Taskforce for the good work done in ensuring the recoveries are possible.
“I have witnessed the discharge of 11 people that have recovered from Covid-19 at Soroti hospital. The patients include three women and one girl. They were among the first 10 contacts of a businessman from Bukedea who tested positive for COVID-19 last week and was taken to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital for treatment.
“The group was quarantined in Kumi district but their results turned positive but now they have recovered. I thank the medical team and Soroti District Covid-19 Taskforce for the job well done,” Moriku said.
Soroti hospital received it’s first COVID-19 case back in May. The Four patients from Kumi district who were contacts of the Bukedea businessman that tested positive at Elegu border, Amuru district were admitted at the hospital on May 25 upon completion of a 14- day quarantine.
A week later, seven more patients were admitted at the hospital with three cases part of the contacts of the Bukedea businessman and four were contacts of another businessman in Soroti who was trading cattle with South Sudanese who tested positive at Elegu border.
The Kumi based hospital later received two more patients from Dokolo and Amolatar. These were casual labourers in South Sudan and they tested positive upon arrival back in Uganda. The two patients are still receiving treatment at the hospital.
Meanwhile, Joyce Moriku calls on the general public to receive these people with open arms and not stigmatize or isolate them because they have fully recovered from the coronavirus.
“The patients have since fully recovered and tested negative twice for COVID-19,” Moriku added.
The hospital director, Dr Michael Mwanga, also re-echoed that all the discharged patients were tested twice for COVID-19 and they showed negative results.
As of today, Uganda has registered up to 420 recoveries from a total of 732 confirmed COVID-19 cases and no particular individual has yet succumbed to the deadly virus.
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