{"id":164907,"date":"2020-09-07T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-uganda-update-on-the-covid19-situation-for-lira-regional-referral-hospital?lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-07T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:14:45","slug":"coronavirus-uganda-update-on-the-covid-19-situation-for-lira-regional-referral-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-uganda-update-on-the-covid-19-situation-for-lira-regional-referral-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Uganda: Update on the COVID-19 situation for Lira Regional Referral Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/69df53ffc6d3cac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/69df53ffc6d3cac\" alt=\"Ministry of Health - Republic of Uganda\" style=\"max-width:500px;\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/69df53ffc6d3cac\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health &#8211; Uganda would like to inform the general public that Lira Regional Referral Hospital remains open, contrary to social media reports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, the hospital has been conducting mass testing for COVID-19 among its staff.<\/p>\n<p>4 health workers were confirmed for COVID-19 at Lira RRH, of which 2 work in the operating theatre. The theatre has since been temporarily closed for disinfection and contact tracing.<\/p>\n<p>All other health services remain open&nbsp;to the public with strict adherence to SOPs.<\/p>\n<p>On a sad note the Ministry announces the death of a Senior Medical Officer of Lira RRH due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry commiserates with the staff of Lira hospital and the entire medical fraternity on this untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>May his soul rest in eternal peace.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health &#8211; Republic of Uganda.<\/i><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Ministry of Health &#8211; Uganda would like to inform the general public that Lira Regional Referral Hospital remains open, contrary to social media reports. However, the hospital has been conducting mass testing for COVID-19 among its staff. 4 health workers were confirmed for COVID-19 at Lira RRH, of which 2 work in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-164907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/coronavirus-uganda-update-on-the-covid-19-situation-for-lira-regional-referral-hospital.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}