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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 @MinofHealthUG 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜?

[THREAD] #StaySafeUG

𝐈𝐂𝐔 𝐁𝐄𝐃𝐒

@MinofHealthUG installed ICU beds in Mulago NRH and Regional Referral Hospitals of Lira, Jinja, St. Mary's Lacor, Mbale, Entebbe, Kawempe, Mbarara, Soroti, Naguru, Kabale, Hoima, Arua, Bombo, Fort portal, Moroto, Mubende, & Gulu to support critical COVID cases.

𝐎𝐗𝐘𝐆𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒

All Regional Referral Hospitals have installed oxygen plants (15Nm3/hr) producing about 30 to 48 cylinders of 6800 litres of oxygen per day. #StaySafeUG

However, the @MinofHealthUG is procuring 8 more oxygen plants (200Nm3/hr) to boost the existing capacity for Regional Referral Hospitals. #StaySafeUG

𝐕𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒

Uganda received the 1st batch of 964,000 AstraZeneca vaccine in March, 2021 & over 800,000 people have since been vaccinated. An additional 175,200 doses arrived in country in June 2021 #StaySafeUG (1/2)

The vaccines from this batch have been delivered to all districts #StaySafeUG (2/2)

To ensure that all health workers and those eligible for their second dose receive the vaccine. #StaySafeUG

The current doses of vaccines are not adequate to cover all those that got the first dose but @GovUganda expect more doses in July #StaySafeUG

𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒

The Ministry acquired 98 type B & type C road ambulances& 3 boat ambulances distributed under a regionally coordinated ambulance service system to all the 14 regions in the country targeting 1 ambulance per health subdistrict #StaySafeUG (1/2)

@MinofHealthUG is expecting 11 more boat ambulances to be delivered next month. As more ambulances are procured all health subdistricts in the country will be covered #StaySafeUG

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒

@MinofHealthUG procured and distributed a total of 36,702,048 masks to all Ugandans. Of these, 34,109,085 masks were delivered to 135 Districts for distribution to their communities and 2,592,963 for distribution to schools finalists #StaySafeUG

𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆

Our testing capacity has significantly increased from 74,000 in previous months to 151,000 PCR tests per month and we project to go upto 320,000 PCR tests by end of June. #StaySafeUG

Established Gene expert testing at all RRHs to support critical testing. These were enhanced with 16 module gene expert machines and cartridges #StaySafeUG

Distributed Antigen RDTS to all the 135 districts, Regional hospitals, National referral hospitals, District hospitals, Health center IVS and HC IIIs, Uganda Prisons isolation centres and Non traditional Facilities like Namboole #StaySafeUG

@MinofHealthUG is working with districts to set up outreach testing camps in all districts to increase access and reduce the volume of samples referred to the Central Labs #StaySafeUG

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𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐃𝐒

@MinofHealthUG on behalf of @GovUganda have imported 1,840 beds and 4,600 are being manufactured locally to bring the total to 6,440 patients beds #StaySafeUG

𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

@MinofHealthUG has procured 20 sleeper tents to expand bed capacity for Regional Referral Hospitals for isolation of COVID-19 patients.

#StaySafeUG (1/2)

Of these, 2 tents were delivered at Soroti, Lira, Gulu, Arua, Hoima, Kabale, Mubende and Fort Portal, and 1 to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital and 3 allocated to the UPDF medical services #StaySafeUG (2/2)

𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄

@MinofHealthUG will soon open the newly constructed Entebbe Isolation Center that has been built for management of such pandemics #StaySafeUG

As of 27th June 2021, the cumulative number of positive cases confirmed was at 79,434 cases and cumulative number of recoveries recorded was at 52,382 #StaySafeUG