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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhile launching the app at the ministry of health headquarters in Kampala yesterday, Dr. Acheng said the need to train health workers is enormous as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his last address, president Yoweri Museveni asked the ministry of health to prepare for worst case scenario as the country progressed to stage three with clusters of community transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president said the ministry should prepare 40,000 beds and train as many as 8,000 health workers in readiness for any eventuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Aceng says it would be very difficult to train such a huge number of health workers in a very short time unless they have applications like this that can be quickly linked to the zoom mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Our training of health workers in this era of COVID-19 has been mainly the digital solutions and this capacity building application is a large boost to our endeavors to train health workers” says Aceng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She says the aim is to have many cohorts of case management teams, surveillance officers, contact tracers, psycho- social people and laboratory people so that even as they expand their testing, treatment and counseling they are always ready for whatever happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Obviously we are working very hard to reverse the current situation from stage three back to stage two and may be hopefully to no cases at all but the evolution of this pandemic or the direction in which this pandemic will take us depends a lot on the communities”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The minister says they are working hard to be ahead of the pandemic the reason as to why the system is not overwhelmed by the over 700 cases and have not registered any death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda has so far registered 420 COVID-19 recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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