Unfortunately, as you may have seen or heard from the media, we have another outbreak of viral haemorrhagic fever in Uganda. This time not Ebola but Marburg, an equally unpleasant highly-infectious serious infection. And this time the outbreak is relatively close to us being near Kabale, a town about an hour and a half's drive from Kisiizi.
As a consequence we are having to triage all our patients at the main hospital gate again, and have moved the overflow patients from our surgical ward, which we had been renovating, back from the old theatre which is once again ready to act as a high-isolation area.
We pray that the disease does not spread but have tried to put the contingency plans in place promptly. Reluctantly we have had to cancel the planned orthopaedic camp due to take place this next week, and have postponed some training seminars linked to the African Patient Partnership Scheme operated by the World Health Organisation.
As a consequence we are having to triage all our patients at the main hospital gate again, and have moved the overflow patients from our surgical ward, which we had been renovating, back from the old theatre which is once again ready to act as a high-isolation area.
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| cleaning the ward area ready to move patients back....note the new ceiling but still needs walls, windows and floors renovating... |
We pray that the disease does not spread but have tried to put the contingency plans in place promptly. Reluctantly we have had to cancel the planned orthopaedic camp due to take place this next week, and have postponed some training seminars linked to the African Patient Partnership Scheme operated by the World Health Organisation.
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