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18/08/2020

Cholera death toll reaches 11 in Kotido
August 18, 2020Written by URN
A community leader sensitizing locals about personal hygiene. Photo Unicef
A community leader sensitizing locals about personal hygiene. Photo Unicef

The death toll from cholera cases in Kotido district in Karamoja sub-region has reached 11 people with three more deaths recorded within last week.

At the beginning of the week, the district had recorded eight cases most of them in Kotido municipality and Panyangara sub-counties. A second facility death was recorded at Kanawat health centre III on Thursday. According to health records, the victim is a resident of Nakodokoi cell in West Division in Kotido municipal council. The other two died from within the communities.
The area leadership is now calling for the ministry of Health's intervention to increase community control measures. Kotido district chairperson Ambrose Lotukei said the district response system needs to be supported following the breakdown of their only two ambulances. He says that with no standby ambulance, the district authorities can hardly respond to any of the alerts from the communities.

West Division chairperson Peter Kaka Nangoro said that recent rains worsened the situation leading to flooding of homesteads and contamination of water sources. He says that the stagnant water was encouraging the spread of cholera and some households have been forced to seek shelter from relatives with homes on a raised surface.

“About 1500 households from different villages have been affected by flooding. They have been displaced to homes in high areas. We fear this could increase the spread of cholera and coronavirus disease because people are sharing housing," Nangoro said.

He said they needed to be supported with beddings and food. Kotido district health officer Dr Serino Acar said there were only sufficient medicines at the two facilities to handle the situation for some two weeks.

He said currently, there were about 17 cases in care at the two treatment centres. The RDC Peter Logiro explained that there has been a risk communication strategy targeting the most affected sub-counties, and therefore community awareness has largely been created. But he noted the inadequacy of beds and supplies for patients. Logiro explains that there are only three beds at both facilities and most patients sleep on the floor.

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If you are interested in knowing Uganda's cases tally since the first confirmed case on March 21, here you go:

March 21 - First (index) case, a 36-year-old male from Dubai
March 23 - Eight new cases, all Ugandan nationals from Dubai
March 24 - Five new cases. Cumulative total at the time = 14
March 25 - All 104 samples test negative
March 26 - Four new cases - male (31) from Dubai, male (29) from UK, female (48) from USA and male (55) from Afghanistan. Cumulative total = 18
March 27 - Five new cases from 227 samples tested
March 28 - Seven new cases from 225 samples tested. Cumulative total = 30
March 29 - Three new cases out of 206 samples tested
March 30 - All 82 samples test negative
March 31 - Eleven new cases confirmed. Cumulative total = 44
April 1 - All 63 samples test negative
April 2 - One out of 302 samples tests positive
April 3 - Three new cases. Cumulative total = 48
April 4 - All 398 samples test negative
April 5 - Four out of 300 samples test positive
April 6 - All 231 samples test negative. Cumulative total = 52
April 7 - All 150 samples test negative
April 8 - One new confirmed case. A resident of Wakiso who returned from China on March 21
April 9 - All 338 samples test negative
April 10 - All 439 samples test negative. Cumulative total = 53
April 11 - All 555 samples test negative
April 12 - One out of 169 samples test positive
April 13 - All 439 samples test negative
April 14 - One new case. A 38-year-old male, who is a cargo transporter, arrived from Kenya via Malaba.
April 15 - All 1,032 samples test negative, including 551 from truck drivers at border points
April 16 - All 1,162 samples test negative, including 839 from truck drivers at border points
April 17 - One new case, a Tanzanian truck driver.
April 18 - All 1,126 samples test negative, including 837 from truck drivers at border points
April 19 - One new case (Kenyan) among 1,14 truck drivers.
April 20 - One new case (Burundian)
April 21 - One new case (Kenyan truck driver)
April 22 - Two new cases (Tanzanian truck drivers)
April 23 - Eleven new cases (six Tanzanian and five Kenyan truck drivers). Cumulative total at this point = 74
April 24 - One new case (Ugandan) out of 1,116 truck drivers tested. All 417 from community test negative
April 25 - All 1,408 samples test negative
April 26 - Four new cases (all Tanzanian) from 1,578 samples tested among truck drivers
April 27 - All 2,557 samples test negative
April 28 - All 2,400 samples test negative, including 1,866 from truck drivers
April 29 - Two new cases (Ugandan & Burundian) among community and under quarantine
April 30 - Two new cases (Kenyan truck drivers) out of 2,071 samples. Cumulative total = 83
May 1 - Two new cases (Kenyan truck driver & Ugandan male from Masindi)
May 2 - Three new cases (Kenyan, Burundian truck drivers & Ugandan male from Rakai). Cumulative total = 88
May 3 - One new case (Kenyan) out of 2,729 truck drivers.

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