July 7, 2021 Written by OUR READERS Namboole stadium facilities were turned into a treatment centre, the same can be done to school buildings Uganda is currently grappling with a second wave of Covid-19. But now that schools are empty after President Museveni’s directive to close them, together with some hotels that no longer get visitors, why can’t government turn these available facilities into Covid-19 hospitals for a while? School dormitories are not being occupied and yet the country lacks room for patients. These dormitories even have beds. Why congest Mulago hospital yet there is room elsewhere? How can a hospital like St. Francis Mutolere in Kisoro district cry of shortages of beds for Covid-19 patients and yet it is surrounded with not only Mutolere Secondary School but also St. Gertrude Girls S. S whose combined dormitories can accommodate the entire patients in that hospital? These are abnormal times.