Cholera Spreads To Wakiso

Dec 08, 2002

HEALTH officials yesterday said the cholera out break in the city had reached worrying proportions with the disease spreading to Wakiso district and claiming two more lives.

By Steven Candia
HEALTH officials yesterday said the cholera out break in the city had reached worrying proportions with the disease spreading to Wakiso district and claiming two more lives.
This brings the death toll to three.
The Kampala district director of health services, Dr. Mishack Mubiru, on Saturday said the epidemic had also spread to Bugolobi, a city suburb in Mutungo Parish, Nakawa division, bringing the geographical spread of the epidemic in the city to two divisions.
On Saturday, one person from Banda in Nakawa division died of cholera in Mulago Hospital while Maria Kosibia, a resident of Nansana, Wakiso district, died on Friday night of the same disease in Mulago Hospital ward 3BE.
Health officials on Thursday morning said a child from Nateete Central zone had died of cholera.
Mubiru announced that plans were underway to establish a cholera treatment centre in Mulago hospital to cater for the increasing number of patients and to avoid cross infection.
“We expect that this centre will be fully functional by Tuesday. It will be isolated like we did in 1997/98. We cannot take chances because other patients may get infected,” Mubiru said.
“So far there have been 14 cumulative cases of victims admitted and discharged.”
Kampala Mayor John Ssebaana Kizito and district health officials on Saturday toured Kitaka zone in Rubaga division where the out break was first reported. Ends

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