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Strange disease leaves 30 admitted in Bukwo
David Mafabi
Bukwo
One person has died and 32 others are admitted at Bukwo Health Centre IV following an outbreak of a strange contagious disease. Zacharia Sokuton succumbed to the strange disease on July 13 after the medical team at Bukwo Health Centre failed to tame the disease.
An eerie cloud of fear now hangs over the villages of Kapses, Sosho, Kapkorosoy and Kapkuripson in Bukwo Sub-county, Bukwo District along River Bukwo where the disease broke out from before spreading to the surrounding villages.
A mini-survey by Daily Monitor reveals that most of the homesteads have been abandoned, villages deserted and it has become increasingly rare to come across people walking in groups for fear of contracting the disease.
The World Health Organisation Public Health Specialist, Dr Mary Amongin, confirmed the disease outbreak in Bukwo.
?We have lost one person and 32 are already admitted at Bukwo Health Centre IV but we have not yet established the disease,? Dr Amongin said, adding: ?We are just suspecting that it could be typhoid due to the surrounding dirty water.?
Dr Amongin told Daily Monitor that the patients are complaining of abdominal pain, headache, fever, diarrhoea and constant vomiting sending fears that it could be a contagious typhoid fever that has broken out.
She revealed that a team of laboratory technicians have already camped in Bukwo to take blood and stool samples of the patients and water from River Bukwo for analysis to find out the disease and its cause. The District Health Officer, Dr Michael Mwanga, said it was a strange disease, the first of its kind in the district ever since they were elevated to a district status.
Dr Mwanga also revealed that the villages of Kapses, Sosho, Kapkorosoy and Kapkuripson that surround the main local river Bukwo have contracted the disease raising more fears that the waters of the river could be dirty.
?The people around River Bukwo have contracted the disease and the numbers keep going up but we suspect the water of the river that is being used for drinking could be dirty and thus causing the strange disease,? said Dr Mwanga.
He said the number of people seeking treatment at Bukwo Hospital is overwhelming despite inadequate medical attention at the health facility.
Last month, Moroto Municipality was hit by the leishmaniasis (kala-azar) disease which claimed some lives.
Strange disease leaves 30 admitted in Bukwo
David Mafabi
Bukwo
One person has died and 32 others are admitted at Bukwo Health Centre IV following an outbreak of a strange contagious disease. Zacharia Sokuton succumbed to the strange disease on July 13 after the medical team at Bukwo Health Centre failed to tame the disease.
An eerie cloud of fear now hangs over the villages of Kapses, Sosho, Kapkorosoy and Kapkuripson in Bukwo Sub-county, Bukwo District along River Bukwo where the disease broke out from before spreading to the surrounding villages.
A mini-survey by Daily Monitor reveals that most of the homesteads have been abandoned, villages deserted and it has become increasingly rare to come across people walking in groups for fear of contracting the disease.
The World Health Organisation Public Health Specialist, Dr Mary Amongin, confirmed the disease outbreak in Bukwo.
?We have lost one person and 32 are already admitted at Bukwo Health Centre IV but we have not yet established the disease,? Dr Amongin said, adding: ?We are just suspecting that it could be typhoid due to the surrounding dirty water.?
Dr Amongin told Daily Monitor that the patients are complaining of abdominal pain, headache, fever, diarrhoea and constant vomiting sending fears that it could be a contagious typhoid fever that has broken out.
She revealed that a team of laboratory technicians have already camped in Bukwo to take blood and stool samples of the patients and water from River Bukwo for analysis to find out the disease and its cause. The District Health Officer, Dr Michael Mwanga, said it was a strange disease, the first of its kind in the district ever since they were elevated to a district status.
Dr Mwanga also revealed that the villages of Kapses, Sosho, Kapkorosoy and Kapkuripson that surround the main local river Bukwo have contracted the disease raising more fears that the waters of the river could be dirty.
?The people around River Bukwo have contracted the disease and the numbers keep going up but we suspect the water of the river that is being used for drinking could be dirty and thus causing the strange disease,? said Dr Mwanga.
He said the number of people seeking treatment at Bukwo Hospital is overwhelming despite inadequate medical attention at the health facility.
Last month, Moroto Municipality was hit by the leishmaniasis (kala-azar) disease which claimed some lives.