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UNBS warns masks, gloves manufacturers over non-compliance
Thursday February 18 2021
Local manufacturers present mask samples to the Minister of State for Investment and Privatisation Evelyn Anite (2nd left) and NDA board chairperson Merdard Bikyeterezo (3rd left) during a meeting in Kampala last year. PHOTO | ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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As more companies get into mask-making, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has cautioned against distributing defective masks, especially for non-medical purposes.
Some manufacturers and importers, according to UNBS have been tempted to rush the process due to an anticipated growth in demand coming on the back of anticipated return of semi candidate classes to school.
“I see most of the people putting out their hands for their body temperature to be taken. This is wrong. The forehead is the right body part from which the temperature reading should be taken, says Simon Rukundo, head of temperature laboratory, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).
He emphasized that users of the temperature guns should strictly follow instructions given by the manufacturers in the user’s manual regarding how the instrument should be used, stored, cleaned and disinfected.
One of the solutions to misuse the guns is to frequently take it for re-calibration even beyond what the manufacturer recommends because there are many factors that affect their effectiveness.