𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-19 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰?




𝗜𝗖𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗗𝗦

Ministry of Health installed ICU beds in Mulago NRH and Regional Referral Hospitals of Lira, Jinja, St. Mary's Lacor, Mbale, Entebbe, Kawempe, Mbarara, Soroti, Naguru, Kabale, Hoima, Arua, Bombo, Fort Portal, Moroto, Mubende, and Gulu to support critical COVID cases. 
 
𝗢𝗫𝗬𝗚𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦 

All Regional Referral Hospitals have installed oxygen plants (15Nm3/hr) producing about 30 to 48 cylinders of 6800 litres of oxygen per day. However, the Health Ministry is procuring 8 more oxygen plants (200Nm3/hr) to boost the existing capacity for Regional Referral Hospitals. Each cylinder will produce over 500 cylinders per day. Similarly, 2 more (250Nm3/hr) plants are being procured for Mulago and Namboole and additional 10,000 oxygen cylinders for mobile distribution.
 
 
𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦

Uganda received the first batch of 964,000 AstraZeneca vaccines in March 2021 and over 800,000 people have since been vaccinated. An additional 175,200 doses arrived in the country in June 2021. The vaccines from this batch have been delivered to all districts - will be used to ensure that all health workers and those eligible for their second dose receive the vaccine.
 
The current doses of vaccines are not adequate to cover all those that got the first dose, but the Ministry expect more doses in July.   
 
𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗦

The Ministry acquired 98 type B and type C road ambulances and 3 boat ambulances distributed under a regionally coordinated ambulance service system to all the 14 regions in the country targeting 1 ambulance per health subdistrict. Ministry of Health is expecting 11 more boat ambulances to be delivered next month.
 
As more ambulances are procured all health sub-districts in the country will be covered.
 
𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗞𝗦

Ministry of Health procured and distributed a total of 36,702,048 masks to all Ugandans. Of these, 34,109,085 masks were delivered to 135 Districts for distribution to their communities and 2,592,963 for distribution to schools finalists.
 
𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚

The testing capacity has significantly increased from 74,000 in previous months to 151,000 PCR tests per month and we project to go up to 320,000 PCR tests by end of June. 
 
Established Gene expert testing at all RRHs to support critical testing. These were enhanced with 16 module gene expert machines and cartridges.
 
Distributed Antigen RDTS to all the 135 districts, Regional hospitals, National referral hospitals, district hospitals, Health centre IVS and HC IIIs, Uganda Prisons isolation centres and Non-traditional Facilities like Namboole. 
 
Health is working with districts to set up outreach testing camps in all districts to increase access and reduce the volume of samples referred to the Central Labs.
 
𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗗𝗦

The government of Uganda imported 1840 beds and 4600 are being manufactured locally to bring a total of 6440 patients beds.
 
𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦

Procured 20 sleeper tents to expand bed capacity for Regional Referral Hospitals for isolation of COVID-19 patients. Of these, 2 tents were delivered at Soroti, Lira, Gulu, Arua, Hoima, Kabale, Mubende and Fort Portal, and 1 to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital and 3 allocated to the UPDF medical services.
 
𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗘

Ministry of Health will soon open the newly constructed Entebbe Isolation Center that has been built for management of such pandemics.

As of 27th June 2021, the cumulative number of positive cases confirmed was at 79,434 cases and cumulative number of recoveries recorded was at 52,382. #StaySafeUG

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