The district of Kisoro registered a third COVID-19 positive truck driver at the Chanika Uganda-Rwanda border in Kisoro district who was admitted to the Kabale Regional Referral Hospital.
Then, on Tuesday at around 3 pm, the 44-year-old truck driver UBF 039 M was brought under tight security by the Rwandan authorities and handed over to the Ugandan authorities at Chanika’s Uganda-Rwanda border.
The truck driver who is a Jinja district resident left Uganda at Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bunagana on May 29 and later connected with Rwanda, but was in contact with COVID 19 patients while he was in Rwanda,
Put into quarantine after a test on Tuesday, he found COVID 19 positive and then transported to Cyanika on Wednesday and handed it over to Uganda’s health & security officials.
Dr. Stephen Nsabiyunva, Health Officer for Kisoro District, says that after the patient was later transported for treatment to the regional referral hospital in Kabale.
He says they are well-equipped to manage it as the district as the health ministry has already provided them with protective equipment, but advises health workers to be more vigilant as some of their country colleagues have already contacted the virus.
” We have now to be careful and know that the virus is with us even though we have all the protective gears I warn the health workers to be more extra careful as we being the Frontline workers we are at risk as some our colleagues have already contacted the disease”. Dr Nsabiyunva Said.
This is the third patient to be taken to the provincial referral hospital in Kabale as on Monday.
Also intercepted at the Bunagana border post in Kisoro district on Monday was a Ugandan cargo truck driver who tested positive for COVID-19 evacuated to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.
A Kenyan truck driver was intercepted on a previous incident at the Cyanika border and was later admitted to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital in isolation on April 24 , 2020, after positive COVID-19 testing.
He was moving from Rwanda to Kenya’s port city Mombasa when he was intercepted and discharged on May 13 after recovery
