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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Covid-19 isolation centre at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital is to be renamed the Infectious Diseases and Research Centre. The construction of the isolation centre that started during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 cost up to two billion Shillings. The centre which is now awaiting …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has given BMK Uganda Ltd a week to complete renovation works at Entebbe National Isolation Centre. The firm was contracted to complete the works by April this year. However, due to delays in approving plans for remodeling the Tuberculosis ward, …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police were heavily deployed at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital as COVID-19 patients attempted to flee from the isolation centre.   The patients were protesting the poor living conditions at the centre, late meals, poor sanitation and delayed results. The patients further challenged the absence of …

Iganga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iganga district COVID-19 taskforce has advised all persons who escaped from an isolation centre at Busoga University to self-isolate from their homes for atleast 14 days as a prerequisite for containing the virus. The isolation centre which was set up at Busoga University premises …