Lessons learnt from Covid-19
Thursday April 01 2021
A police officer attached to Mutukula Border Police Station being interviewed at Masaka hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 on May 5, 2020. PHOTO/ISSA ALIGA
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Dr Charles Olaro, the director of Curative Services at the Ministry of Health, says one way of going around this problem could be to invest in technology to make the equipment here rather than reliance on imports.
Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO country representative, said the country needs to strengthen hospital capacities to handle significant influxes of patients associated with a large scale pandemic.
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When the country ushered in 2020, no one expected the turmoil that came with it as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Daily Monitor
Thursday December 10 2020
A laboratory technician at the Uganda National Health Laboratories analyses Covid-19 samples on Wednesday. PHOTO/ STEPHEN OTAGE
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The cost of testing for Covid-19 is likely to drop from about Shs360, 000 ($100) to Shs36,000 ($10), a senior official of the National Health Laboratory Services has said.
The official says that with the introduction of rapid test kits, clients will get their result after ten minutes.
Dr Isaac Ssewanyana the director of Uganda National Health Laboratory Services said the performance of the kits which they have been evaluating for the last two weeks, is promising.
“We have been evaluating the rapid test kits for the last two weeks that allow us to get result in a short time. They [kits] are giving us fair results, they performed to a level which is acceptable,” he said on Wednesday.