By Our Reporter

17th June 2021

 

The lack of protective gears at different health facilities in Jinja is exposing health workers to covid-19.

 

At least five health centre IVs which include Bugembe, Mpumudde, Walukuba, Budondo and Buwenge, frontline health workers had run out of gloves and facemasks.

 

In some facilities, those turning up for testing were purchasing protective gears for the health workers before testing.

Ruth Namukuve, a health worker in Buwenge says that the supplies received from the district health officials are insufficient to effectively attend to the ever-increasing numbers of covid-19 suspects who seek services at the facility daily.

Shabilah Namukose, a resident of Budondo says that her sister has battled covid-19 for the past 11 days under the home-based care arrangement and they are mandated with purchasing protective gears for the visiting health workers.

 

The Jinja district covid19 surveillance focal person, Richard Luvaluka says that 110 people have tested positive for covid-19 in the past two weeks and out of these, 10 of them are frontline health workers, who are supposed to examine and manage covid-19 patients on home-based care program.

Luvaluka stresses that, although some patients with mild symptoms are monitored through routine phone calls and text messages, physical outreaches by health workers are paramount in ensuring that covid-19 patients adhere to the set rules of self-isolation and also ensuring timely referral of victims, whose conditions worsen in two weeks.

 


Friday 18th June 2021 09:09:28 AM