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Lukwago, Uganda Red Cross Enter Partnership to Have Covid-19 Victims Evacuated

The Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has partnered with Uganda Red Cross Society to provide emergency services, particularly evacuation of the suspected COVID-19 cases and dead bodies and those suffering from other ailments.


This morning they picked a body of a suspected COVID-19 victim that has been lying in a rental for two days in Bulwa zone; his neighbourhood.


They earlier made frantic calls to the RCC of Kampala Mr. Hood Hussein, who heads the COVID-19 Task Force for Kampala and the Metropolitan Area, the police and other relevant authorities but in vain.

They had to improvise means with Red Cross to handle the situation.


The Lord Mayor has also reached out to other private agencies and health facilities who have graciously accepted to boost the KCCA fleet of ambulances.

“Currently, KCCA has got 5 Ambulances, two of which are dysfunctional. With the support of good Samaritans we are likely to pool about 18 Ambulances to deal with the pathetic situation. Other stopgap measures will be communicated.
Keep safe, be your neighbor’s keeper.” Lukwago said.

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