The Ministry of Health spokesperson Mr. Emmanuel Ainebyona has said renovation works on the national isolation center in Manyago, Entebbe municipality are 98 percent complete.
Upon completion, Ainebyona says the center will handle breakouts of highly infectious diseases like Marburg, Ebola, Covid 19, rift valley fever, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. He noted that will enable them to attend to highly infectious passengers that come through the Entebbe airport. Mr. Ainebyona made the remarks while addressing journalists after a tour of ongoing inspection works by the ministry of health officials led by the permanent secretary Dr. Diana Atwine, the Director-general health services Mr. Henry Mwebesa and the Director of Entebbe General Hospital Mr. Moses Muwanga.
Ainebyona added that the center will help to decongest Entebbe Hospital of infectious patients or cases that can be isolated to allow the hospital to attend to other general services.
Mr. Ainebyona said the ministry of health has been advised by consultants from the Emergency hospital to add some equipment like oxygen, patient monitors, oxygen concentrators, ventilators for the section that will work as an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), fitting in of laboratory equipment before the facility is fully opened for use.
The center has been designed for about 80 beds but the ministry of health plans to have an overflow tent that can accommodate additional patients and also provide a conducive environment.
