A Tanzanian physician working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the primary well being employee killed by the illness within the newest outbreak within the nation, Uganda’s well being minister mentioned on Saturday.
I remorse to announce that now we have misplaced our first physician, Dr. Mohammed Ali, a Tanzanian nationwide, 37-year-old Male,” the well being minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, tweeted.
She mentioned Ali had examined constructive for Ebola on September 26 and died whereas receiving therapy at a hospital in Fort Portal, a city about 300 kilometres west of the capital Kampala.
Authorities within the east African nation introduced the outbreak of the lethal haemorrhagic fever on September 20 triggering fears of a significant well being disaster within the nation of 45 million folks.
There isn’t a vaccine for the Sudan pressure of the illness behind the most recent Uganda an infection.
The well being ministry mentioned on Friday, earlier than Ali’s demise, that the illness had up to now contaminated 35 folks and killed seven.
Ali was amongst six well being employees who embody docs, an anaesthesiologist and one medical scholar who’ve contracted the illness.
Ebola primarily spreads by contact with the bodily fluids of an contaminated individual. The viral illness has signs together with intense weak spot, muscle ache, complications and a sore throat, vomiting, diarrhoea and rashes amongst others.
