Uganda Health News: Patients, medical staff flee Mityana hospital
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First published: 20091110 2:27:54 AM EST
Ultimate Media
Patients and some medical staff at Mityana district Hospital reportedly disappeared following reports that an Ebola sick person had been brought into the hospital.
Jackie Tumuhairwe was brought to the hospital with signs equivalent to those of Ebola. The brave medical workers however managed to receive the patients and quarantined the room where Tumuhairwe was being treated.
The Senior Nursing Officer of Mityana Hospital, Muamin Kalule has told Ultimate Media today morning that doctors from Kampala have gone to Mityana to study Tumuhairwe’s case.
Kalule says Tumuhairwe is vomiting and bleeding, which signs are linked to the deadly Ebola fever.
The patient says she started vomiting and bleeding after eating an antelope meat. According to the patients’ registration book, Tumuhairwe, 26, is a resident of Mawanda Zone, Kakindu sub-county, Mityana district.
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