The Senior Health Educator of Jinja City, Sayyid Kalume, has confirmed that 25 contacts of the two Ebola patients identified last week have been traced. The majority of these contacts are family members and neighbors of the patients, who were isolated after testing positive for the Ebola virus.
The two patients—a child and the wife of a Mulago nurse who recently succumbed to Ebola—were identified as close contacts requiring urgent medical attention. Following the nurse’s death in Mbale, the two relocated to their relatives in Mafubira Zone A, Northern Division, Jinja City, where health authorities later traced them.