A UNEB scout has been evacuated from Kakumiro district to Mubende hospital after presenting with Ebola-like symptoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scout had been deployed at Kings Way Primary school in Igayaza town council to monitor the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE, which started Tuesday morning.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scout, whose particulars have been concealed reportedly developed severe sickness on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He complained of severe headache, general body pain, and fever and started bleeding through the mouth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health officials rushed and picked up the suspect after being notified and took him to Igayaza health center III for treatment before he was evacuated to Mubende hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward Wamani, the Kakumiro District Disease Surveillance Officer, says they immediately alerted their counterparts in Mubende who rushed and picked blood samples from the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wamani says that they have liaised with the in charge of Igayaza health center III to immediately disinfect the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter Nambale, the UNEB Monitor for Kakumiro district, says that upon arrival at the school, the UNEB scout was immediately evacuated to the health facility before interacting with anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says despite the suspected case, the exams went on successfully, arguing that there is no cause for alarm since the UNEB scout did not interact with anyone at the school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Major David Matovu, the Kakumiro Resident District Commissioner-RDC declined to comment on the matter and referred URN to the UNEB monitor. Kakumiro borders Mubende district, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A UNEB scout has been evacuated from Kakumiro district to Mubende hospital after presenting with Ebola-like symptoms. The scout had been deployed at Kings Way Primary school in Igayaza town council to monitor the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE, which started Tuesday morning.\u00a0 The scout, whose particulars have been concealed reportedly developed severe sickness on Tuesday morning. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":33674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[7916,31,119],"class_list":["post-33672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-ebola-virus-disease","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33675,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions\/33675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}