We hope it will never happen... but we are taking pains to prepare for any future outbreak of viral haemorrhagic fever such as Ebola. We had both Ebola and Marburg within a couple of hours drive from Kisiizi in 2012 and some possible cases but in the end thankfully they all proved negative. Now of course there are huge problems in west Africa with the Ebola outbreak going out of control and spreading quite rapidly. Interestingly some specialists from Uganda have been sent to west Africa to try and help arrest the spread of the disease.
Hanna has been busy with our Patient Safety Nurse Agnes checking through our supplies of equipment for high level isolation. We have updated our protocols as best we can in the light of the new interim guidelines issued by WHO on 9th August and Ian and Agnes ran training sessions on Ebola for the Staff and then the Students of the School of Nursing on 12th August to ensure people are aware of actions to minimise the potential spread of such infections should an outbreak occur.
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| Student nurses attending the lecture on Ebola control measures |
Hanna has been busy with our Patient Safety Nurse Agnes checking through our supplies of equipment for high level isolation. We have updated our protocols as best we can in the light of the new interim guidelines issued by WHO on 9th August and Ian and Agnes ran training sessions on Ebola for the Staff and then the Students of the School of Nursing on 12th August to ensure people are aware of actions to minimise the potential spread of such infections should an outbreak occur.
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