Ebola: Six Ugandan health workers test positive for virus
Members of Doctors without borders NGO set up an Ebola treatment isolation unit at the Mubende regional referral hospital in Uganda on September 24, 2022. PHOTO | AFP
Five doctors and an anaesthetic officer have been taken into isolation for treatment after contracting Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the line of duty, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
The EVD taskforce in Mubende District, the epicentre of the outbreak, and the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the national umbrella group for doctors, separately said the health workers caught the infectious disease from patients.
