The number of Covid-19 patients at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital treatment centre has climbed to 16 as more cargo truck drivers who enter the country through Mutukula border test positive for the coronavirus.
While discharging the second patient on Tuesday, Dr Mark Jjuko, the officer-in-charge of the hospital coronavirus isolation centre, said they are doing all to ensure that patients recover.
Ms Isabel Nyizihaya, a senior nurse at the isolation centre, revealed that all their patients have mild flu-like symptoms and cough, which disappear within a few days after treatment.
Masaka Regional Referral hospital, which was founded as a treatment centre for syphilis, was elevated to a referral level in 1995 to offer services to the greater southern region districts of Masaka, Kyotera, Rakai, Lyantonde, Lwengo, Ssembabule, Bukomansimbi, Kalungu and Kalangala.
Over the years, the hospital management has been grappling with many challenges ranging from lack of space to accommodate the overwhelming number of patients and seeking medical services and inadequate drugs.
