By Kiconco Agnes
KIU, Main Campus câ¬â?? A total of seven Coronavirus Recoveries have been discharged today. Three were discharged from Mulago Hospital in Kampala while four others were discharged from Entebbe Grade B.
This brings the total number of recoveries up to 45 out of 61 confirmations.
The Ministry of Health, issued directives that the discharged, will now undergo psychosocial support before being reintegrated back into the community.
All the previous patients who fully recovered from the Coronavirus were treated with the controversial hydroxychloroquine drug that is yet to be approved by the World Health Organisation.
câ¬Å?The patients we are discharging today were on hydroxychloroquine and erythromycin actually,c⬠tweeted the Director General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health Dr Henry Mwebesa on 11th April, when the country discharged the first three Covid-19 patients.
With the discharged patients at Mulago, the facility continues to treat only 3 COVID-19 patients.