With Ebola outbreak in Uganda getting worse with more cases being confirmed, there have been reports of a strike by medical staff at the Mubende Hospital in the central region of the country after some staff there contracted the disease.
However, the situation remains confused and the Ugandan authorities denied workers have walked off.
Meanwhile the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has called on the government to quarantine all risk areas, in effect to enforce a lockdown, to prevent further transmission.
The UMA’s president Dr Samuel Oledo gave Newsday an update on the situation.
“About six of the health workers exposed… are really critically-ill. They are all positive. Many of the medical students were exposed. [Ebola] patients were managed in an open ward before they knew. We need more health workers to be deployed.”
