MoH Opens Up Homecare for MPOX As Cases Spiral

By Spurb Ernest

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has resolved to allow mild cases of mpox to be treated from home.

While the government has previously been strictly quarantining all cases of the viral disease at health facilities across the country, Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has said they have approved new guidelines allowing those who are not very badly off to stay at home. As of yesterday, Aceng says seven hundred and seventy positive cases were being treated at different centres.

Uganda recorded the first Mpox case six months ago and statistics by the Ministry show a cumulative 2,896 people have since tested positive for the disease that causes among others painful lesions on the body of the sufferers including in their private parts. 

Of these, nineteen have died and Aceng says those that succumbed had been battling other pre-existing health conditions including Tuberculosis, HIV and Sickle cell anemia.