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Ministry of Health and the City Task Force host hotel owners in a meeting to raise awareness. By Erema George Arua City Authorities in Arua city have warned against illegal isolation of patients suspected to have contracted Ebola disease to private health faci
Ministry of Health and the City Task Force host hotel owners in a meeting to raise awareness.
By Erema George
Arua City
Authorities in Arua city have warned against illegal isolation of patients suspected to have contracted Ebola disease to private health facilities or elsewhere, which according to them may increase the risk of further spread of the disease.
This came during an awareness meeting with hotel owners on June 7, held by the Ministry of Health and the City Ebola Task Force to increase vigilance in the city.
Meanwhile Ebola patients are strictly isolated in specialized Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) until they test negative twice, Rt. Maj.Gen Betty Otekat Akello, the Resident City Commissioner(RCC) of Arua city noted that there’s only one regional isolation center that everyone must use;
“The Ministry of Health and the surveillance team of Arua city proposed our regional isolation center in Oli health center IV meaning that none of us is supposed to isolate anybody including any of us, once you are affected or infected, you are not supposed to isolate yourself in any private facility not even in Arua Regional Referral Hospital. The isolation center is only one, in Oli health center IV,” Akello noted.
The RCC of Arua city, who also chairs the task force of the city.
Dr. Alfred Driwale The Commissioner for institutional and health workforce development and a member of the national Ebola task force assures of full support to those admitted at the facility noting that the challenges that existed at the isolation facility have been addressed;
Dr. Alfred Driwale the Commissioner for institutional and health workforce development.
“At the beginning the support to that center was lacking in terms of the feeding but right now we have sorted that issue, Arua Regional Referral Hospital has stepped in fully and the Ministry of Health is preparing items to come and support the isolation center so that those who are cooperating with us to contain this disease by accepting to be contained are comfortable.” Dr.Driwale said.
The Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) keeps suspects for 21 days in isolation while monitoring them until laboratory test confirms they are clear of the virus.