{"id":3039,"date":"2021-07-03T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T14:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:17","slug":"patients-shun-butema-health-center-iii-after-health-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/07\/03\/patients-shun-butema-health-center-iii-after-health-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients Shun Butema Health Center III After Health Workers Test Positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3047 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/BUTEMA-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/BUTEMA-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/BUTEMA-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/BUTEMA.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Tugume Johnbosco\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patients in Buhanika Sub-county, Hoima district are avoiding seeking treatment from Butema Health Centre III after two workers at the facility succumbed to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Two workers from the Records Department succumbed to Covid-19 while three more health workers are still battling the virus under the homecare Based management.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Enyonga, the Health Assistant at the facility says patients are shying away in fear of contracting the disease from workers at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>He says they currently have limited Personal Protective Gears in stock which puts the lives of the health workers at risk of contracting or spreading the virus.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Spice FM visited the facility, the health workers were wearing one mask yet the ministry of health advises them to put on more than one for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Namagala, the in-charge of the maternity ward at the facility says even the number of expecting mothers seeking for antenatal services has reduced hence increasing on child and maternal deaths.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, out of 120 mothers who seek antenatal services at the facility in a month, only 60-70 deliver from it while majority deliver in the hands of Traditional Birth Attendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tugume Johnbosco\u00a0 Patients in Buhanika Sub-county, Hoima district are avoiding seeking treatment from Butema Health Centre III after two workers at the facility succumbed to Covid-19. Two workers from the Records Department succumbed to Covid-19 while three more health workers are still battling the virus under the homecare Based management. Emmanuel Enyonga, the Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bunyoro","7":"category-health","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}