The Popondetta General Hospital in Oro Province has confirmed 13 covid-19 cases this week with two of the cases being severe and admitted at the hospital.
“Even though Northern Province is not a hotspot, we are still recording Covid-19 cases.”
“COVID-19 is fairly new in the country and so we currently don’t have an isolation facility in the hospital for COVID-19 patients,” said former Acting CEO, Dr Touai Giara.
Dr Giara said that the 13 cases were detected when they presented themselves at the hospital for testing and upon testing positive, they were advised to go into isolation with the 2 severe cases remaining at the hospital.
He said that so far the hospital is operating as normal and accepting and treating all patients.
At present, they have not decided yet on whether they will scale down services as the Hospital board has not met to discuss their options going forward since the confirmation of the new covid-19 cases.
He added that now with the 3rd wave of COVID-19 cases been reported, people have been coming forward to receive the COVID-19 Vaccine.
“Everyone is afraid of the Delta Variant which is already in the country so the turnout for people coming forward to get the vaccine has been very good.”
“Both the Astra Zeneca and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine is available for people that wish to get get the jab,” Dr Giara said.
He further added that COVID-19 testing is available at the General Hospital as well as the health centres in the province.