As the country continues to look for avenues of amplifying fight against the global corona virus, the Government of Uganda has approved the move to increase the number of health workers countrywide.
According to the statement issued the Ministry of Public Service, total number of about 374 health workers contracts have been renewed to support the Covid-19 response.
“The Ministry of Public Service has cleared the Ministry of Health to renew contracts of 374 health workers recruited to support the COVID-19 Response.” Said Mr. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Public Relations Officer Health Ministry.
In the same statement, Public Service also clearance the fresh recruitment of 766 health workers to strengthen the response.
This effort comes days after President Yoweri Museveni reimposed a 42-day lockdown following a dramatic rise in coronavirus infections in the country especially the Kampala Metropolitan area.
Last month however infections started to spike and new cases, particularly among younger people, have surged, fuelling fears that the country could slip into an out-of-control second wave.
Museveni said in a televised address on Sunday night that a second wave gripping the country was “diffuse and sustained”.
The government, he said, was worried the jump in cases would “exhaust the available bed space and oxygen supply in hospitals unless we constitute urgent public health measures”.
“In this wave the intensity of severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients and death is higher than what we experienced in the first wave of the pandemic,” he said.
