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Two coronavirus patients reportedly escaped from Mityana general hospital where they were undergoing treatment.
Hospital spokesman Edward Muganga said one of the missing patients is a resident of Wabigalo village in Tamu Division Mityana municipality while the second is from Kassanda district.
“Unfortunately, the patient from the village of Wabigalo died a few hours after escaping from the room, according to information we received,” Muganga said in an interview on Tuesday evening.
Dr Adonia Samanya, head of the Covid-19 treatment center at Mityana Hospital, said relatives of the patients removed them from the facility after learning they would be referred to Entebbe hospital.
“We had everything finalized to give them a referral given their worsening condition, but their relatives smuggled them out of the room while we waited for the ambulance,” added Dr Samanya.
According to Mr. Yasin Ndidde, the deputy commissioner of the Mityana resident district who is also chairman of the Covid-19 district working group, they are liaising with intelligence officers and local leaders in the region to find the two patients and their relatives. in order to avoid spreading the virus. . “
“We ask their loved ones to cooperate with us because if they leave these patients in the community, they will put our people in danger,” he said.
The health ministry said on Tuesday that an additional 438 Ugandans had tested positive for Covid-19 as cases of the virus on July 11 rose to 88,194.
Virus deaths also jumped to 2,164 after 35 more people died from Covid-19.
However, there are 987 active cases on admission to different health centers with 62,213 recoveries since March 2020, when the virus epidemic was confirmed in the country.
So far, the government has administered 1,076,923 doses of the vaccine and performed 1,398,851 tests in a country with an estimated population of around 44 million people.
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