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Infection Prevention 2020: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) at no Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) Health facilities during Ebola Outbreak in Kasese District-Uganda - Mutoro Julius -Kasese District Local Government

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Mutoro Julius

Background: According to WHO review, Hospital-huge incidence of Health Care-Associated infections varies from 5.7% to 19.1%, with a pooled prevalence of 10.1% in lowincome countries. (WHO, 2011). The state of affairs is similar in Kasese District with ineffective Infection Prevention and manipulate (IPC) programs and yet it had recorded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on 11th June 2019. This referred to as for improving IPC at 40 highly risky centers to lessen morbidity & mortality because of EVD. Uganda has had a 2d incursion of Ebola from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), two and a half months after three cases were imported in June. Ugandan officials confirmed Ebola in a 9-year-old DRC woman who crossed from the DRC with her mother yesterday, Uganda's... view more»

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