Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Musuuza Building Contractors Limited, the construction company building a staff hostel at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, has declined to hand over the completed structure. The contractor cites unpaid extra balance as the reason for their refusal. The staff hostel, valued at Sh7.8 billion, was …
Read More »Police injure Kabale hospital medic while enforcing curfew
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Muhammad Byaruhanga, an orthopedist attached to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital is nursing wounds after being tortured by the escorts of Kabale Resident District Commissioner, Darius Nandinda. Byaruhanga told URN on Monday afternoon that the RDC’s police guards beat him on Sunday night towards 9:00pm as …
Read More »Kabale hospital runs out of space for Covid-19 patients
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale Regional Referral Hospital is struggling with space for coronavirus patients as numbers continue to surge. The facility was designated to handle patients from across the Kigezi region as the government decentralized COVID-19 case treatment services. Dr Sophie Namasopo, the hospital director says that the …
Read More »Kabale hospital suspends admission after patient tests positive for Covid-19
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale regional referral hospital has suspended the admission of patients after the facility registered a COVID-19 positive case. The 56-year-old Imam, a resident of Nyakijumba in the southern division, Kabale municipality was admitted at the hospital on Sunday. He had traveled by bus from Kampala …
Read More »Kabale hospital struggles to secure space for COVID-19 patients
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | bThe Kabale district COVID-19 task force is struggling to find space to fulfil a requirement by the Ministry of health to accommodate 200 COVID-19 patients. The Ministry of Health last month guided that all 40 referral hospitals across the country needed to secure a space …
Read More »Kabale Hospital discharges COVID-19 recovered truck driver
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale Regional Referral Hospital has discharged a Kenyan truck driver who has fully recovered from the coronavirus disease-COVID-19. The truck driver was admitted in isolation at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital on April 24, 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19. He was on his way to …
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