Source: https://www.independent.co.ug/malari...ed-in-kampala/
Malaria outbreak feared in Kampala
The Independent August 7, 2019
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five children are admitted each day in Acute Care Unit of Mulago National Referral hospital with convulsions and anemia resulting from malaria infection.
Dr. Richard Idro, a Pediatrician in the Unit, says this situation is unlike weeks ago when they were registering four to five cases a week.
?It?s not only very young children who we used to see with such complications but now mostly bigger children in primary school with cerebral and severe malaria?, he said.
Adding that, ?Some of the patients are presenting with complications that have previously been rare with malaria patients.?...
Malaria outbreak feared in Kampala
The Independent August 7, 2019
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five children are admitted each day in Acute Care Unit of Mulago National Referral hospital with convulsions and anemia resulting from malaria infection.
Dr. Richard Idro, a Pediatrician in the Unit, says this situation is unlike weeks ago when they were registering four to five cases a week.
?It?s not only very young children who we used to see with such complications but now mostly bigger children in primary school with cerebral and severe malaria?, he said.
Adding that, ?Some of the patients are presenting with complications that have previously been rare with malaria patients.?...
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