{"id":3413,"date":"2020-07-08T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:49:35","slug":"nimule-hospital-records-ten-positive-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/nimule-hospital-records-ten-positive-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimule Hospital records ten positive COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\nMoyo Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving Mobile Testing Machine for COVID-19, Nimule\nHospital, in Eastern Equatoria State, registered a total of 285 tests since\nearly July,10 of whom are positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the National Ministry of Health donated Mobile\nTesting Machine for COVID-19 and other diseases, including of Yellow Fever, at\nNimule Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Medical Director, Dr. Nyuma Silvestor, out\nof the tests conducted for COVID-19, ten results returned positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Nyuma says the hospital at the moment is testing\nsamples manually with about 90 tests performed on daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says if testing is done automatically, more than 90\nsamples can be tested in a single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Medical Director revealed that the ten positive cases\nof COVID-19 included three truck drivers from Uganda, five health workers from\nNimule Hospital, one health worker from Melijio Internally Displaced Persons\u2019\nCamp, and one community member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says patients of coronavirus in Nimule are isolated at\ntheir respective homes and show no symptoms, and that the health workers have\nadvised them accordingly to help them recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe contact tracing team continues to check their\ncondition, such that they can quickly be assisted in case of any complication,\u201d\nexplained Dr. Nyuma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the medical director complains that the personal\nprotection equipment is scarce, and as such the health workers are exposed to\nrisk of getting infected with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He encourages the public and health workers to practice the\nprevention measures to protect them from getting infected with the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moyo Jacob After receiving Mobile Testing Machine for COVID-19, Nimule Hospital, in Eastern Equatoria State, registered a total of 285 tests since early July,10 of whom are positive. Last month, the National Ministry of Health donated Mobile Testing Machine for COVID-19 and other diseases, including of Yellow Fever, at<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/nimule-hospital-records-ten-positive-covid-19-cases\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,100,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-travel-lifestyle","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}