Rwanda launches largest treatment centre amidst Covid-19 surge

Nyarugenge District Hospital.

The newly completed Nyarugenge District Hospital already in Kigali where the government has established the largest Covid-19 treatment centre. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Rwanda has launched its largest treatment centre for Covid-19 patients, which is expected to provide relief for overwhelmed hospitals across the country.

The new centre has the capacity to admit 140 patients under its intensive care unit and comes at a time when the country is desperately trying to control a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic that had by January 8 claimed 115 lives, with 2,313 active cases.