Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has today discharged 47 truck drivers who have recovered from the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). The patients, all long-distance truck drivers were discharged on Monday afternoon.
This is the biggest number of recovered patients being discharged the same day from one facility ever since Uganda recorded its first case on March 21. The 47 truck drivers were admitted at Entebbe Hospital on the same day and have been discharged after 17 days in the hospital.
While presiding over the discharge ceremony at Entebbe Hospital, the Director General Health Services, Dr Henry Mwebesa said that the latest discharge of 47 patients brings the total number of recoveries to 364 in Uganda.
Mwebesa lauded the Hospital workers for staying safe while handling the patients and suspects for the last three months. So far, 28 health workers across Uganda have contracted the virus.
However, Dr Moses Muwanga, the Hospital Director used the occasion to also inform Mwebesa that his team has not yet been paid risk allowances for two months. There are 100 hospital workers including 70 health workers. Each front line worker earns between shillings 40,000 to shillings 80,000 per day on duty.
Mwebesa says that the risk allowances will be paid by this Saturday because the 2019/2020 financial year will be ending soon.