The Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr Byarugaba Baterana, has today relived critical UPDF Doctors, Nurses and other experts of the supports rendered at the hospital in the fight against Covid 19.
This comes as a result of the joint effort of medical teams from Mulago National Referral Hospital, Makerere University, Infectious Disease Control Centre and UPDF successfully disabling the pandemic.
It should be noted that the ministry of Health requested the UPDF leadership to support the ministry against the outbreak of Covid 19. Subsequently, on March 25 86 medics from UPDF were dispatched to different hospitals to boost the effort. Other security agencies like police, prisons also responded putting the number of security forces medics supporting the ministry to 240 personnel.
Out of the twenty three (23) COVID-19 patients admitted at Mulago National referral hospital, 21 have been since discharged while only two (2) remain admitted at the facility. According to Dr Byarugaba the two will be discharged as soon as tomorrow.
Dr Byarugaba in a jovial mood thanked the UPDF medical team for working tirelessly with Mulago hospital to disable Covid 19.
“Thank you for being disciplined and for fighting the pandemic, we have together reduced covid 19 to the minimum, disabled it and actually defeated it with a heavy blow. You can now be baptized as ‘Covid 19 defeaters’ in this hospital and medals of victory awaits you” Said the Executive Director.
The head of Mulago requested that UPDF head of medical services should consider deploying the team in other critical centres of the National Referral hospital like Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Neurology, crimatology and others so that they can further their experience that they have acquired.
He referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital as a “Supreme Court of Medicine” where any medical challenge can be defeated. Byarugaba called upon other countries to do a medical tourism to Mulago to learn more on how to defeat infectious diseases and other complications.
