The Uganda Medical Association, -UMA has called doctors and medical interns working at Mubende regional referral hospital and others who are working in red spot areas not to abandon the facilities for fear of contracting Ebola.
Medical interns earlier on were pushing to be transferred from Mubende regional referral hospital following the outbreak of the disease in Mubende District.
UMA president Dr. Samuel Oledo said some of the interns may leave when they have been exposed to the disease which can cause more danger to their families and the communities where they live. He also said that some health workers have clinical symptoms and they are in hiding. He advised them to come out for tests and get treated if found positive.
Oledo also said the Ministry of Health should recruit more health workers in the Ebola fight, so that the working hours of health workers attending to Ebola patients can reduce.
Dr. Musa Lumumba the president of Medical Interns, has said that in Mubende, medical interns decried a lack of personal protective equipment, which caused one of the health workers to die and one is currently in critical condition in Fort Portal regional referral hospital.
The Ebola outbreak in Uganda was first detected last week in Mubende, in central region, but has since spread to other districts Kyegegwa, Kasanda, and Kagadi.