FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus walks in an empty taxi park in Kampala, Uganda. PHOTO | BADRU KATUMBA | AFP

Dozens of military medical personnel on Monday withdrew from Ugandas national referral hospital after most of the COVID-19 patients admitted there completed their treatment and were discharged.

Byarugaba Baterana, executive director of Mulago National Referral Hospital, hailed the military personnel for the support they rendered when COVID-19 patients were admitted at the hospital.

Thank you for being disciplined and for fighting the pandemic. We have together reduced COVID-19 to the minimum, disabled it and actually defeated it with a heavy blow, Baterana was quoted as saying in a military statement issued in Kampala.

Out of the 23 COVID-19 patients admitted at Mulago National Referral Hospital, 21 have been since discharged while only two remain at the facility, she said.

Baterana said the two patients may be discharged on Tuesday.

Major General Ambrose Musinguzi, the chief of military medical services, said the army is mandated to support civil authority in cases of any catastrophe like the COVID-19 pandemic.

The military team would now be sent out to assist district task forces in the fight against the pandemic, Musinguzi said.

Uganda, according to the Ministry of Health, has so far reported 79 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of which 46 have been discharged. Some patients are admitted at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital.

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