Over 100 patients presenting with signs and symptoms of the COVID-19 are stranded at Mulago referral Hospital with no medical personnel to attend to them.
This group is believed to have majority numbers that traveled to the UAE and Dubai who were being called in by the ministry of health to go for testing.
The patients that crowded the hospital unattended to mostly presented with the symptoms that include flu, cough, fever, shortness of breath red eyes, itchy eyes among others.
However, some of the patients claim they have always shown up to the hospital for isolation and tests but the doctors have always postponed their checks.
Efforts to talk to doctors at the time of filing this story were futile as they were not available for comment.
At the hospital’s parking lot, a helpless victim, a woman in her mid-20s was seen struggling to breathe, with red eyes before later being rushed to the women’s hospital in Bukoto in the hospital ambulance.
When we spoke to Robinnah Nabbanja the state Minister of Health for General duties said she was not aware of what was transpiring at Mulago hospital and added that the ministry could investigate it.
She, however, said most of the patients returning to the hospital had already finished their 14-day mandatory testing and are not among the group being called in by the Ministry of Health- MOH.
The MOH recently recalled all passengers that had returned to Uganda in the past two weeks to subject themselves to testing and also carry out mandatory isolation.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health announced that 104 returnees from Dubai or their associates who were tested for the virus on Wednesday, had all tested negative.
Meanwhile, several districts in Uganda continue to create isolation centers with several patients flocking in for isolation while presenting symptoms of the pandemic.
