Mulago National Referral Hospital
Uganda's national referral hospital in Kampala, which treated the country's Ebola patients.
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Uganda's Ebola outbreak just ended at Mulago; will the 42-day clock hold?
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Discharged the outbreak's last patient after two negative tests
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Uganda discharges its last Ebola patient, starts 42-day clockBackground
Uganda discharged its last confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola patient from Mulago on 16 July after two negative tests, opening a 42-day countdown toward declaring the outbreak over. The country's final tally stands at 20 cases and 2 deaths, 15 imported from DR Congo and 5 acquired locally.
Mulago is Uganda's largest public hospital, with a combined bed capacity of around 1,600 across its Lower and Upper Mulago blocks, and serves as the teaching hospital for Makerere University's College of Health Sciences. Founded in 1913 on Mulago Hill north-east of central Kampala, it grew from a colonial-era clinic into the country's principal referral and isolation centre for serious outbreaks.
The outbreak Mulago has just closed out originated in DR Congo's Ituri Province, where the same Bundibugyo strain continues to strain the health system: nine of twelve health posts in neighbouring Djugu Territory have closed under patient overload, and staff at Bunia's Rwampara treatment centre struck over unpaid hazard pay. Mulago's isolation capacity remains Uganda's main buffer against any renewed cross-border spread.