Amid praise to God, State Minister for Primary Health Care, Ms Moriku Joyce presided over the discharge of 10 other recoveries from COVID-19 at Entebbe Grade B hospital on Monday.
While dressed in their uniform and masks on Monday, a team of medical workers in Uganda started to exalt God through various Christian songs outside Entebbe Grade B hospital where more coronavirus patients were discharged after full recovery.
“God you’re so God,” the medics sang out, as one played the guitar.
The heartwarming occasion was graced by the State Minister for Primary Health Care, Dr Moriku Joyce, who revealed that the discharge now brings the total recovered cases in Uganda to 38.
Those discharged included 5 Children from the Watoto Children’s Choir, 3 of their attendants, 1 Boda boda rider from Kasubi and one resident of Kalangala.
Ministry of Health officials told media reporters a coronavirus patient is only discharged after testing negative twice.
This is done so that “we are sure that he/she is completely free of the Coronavirus,” said Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, a senior public relations officer at the Ministry of Health.
With the country now registering fewer cases, the Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng in her speech earlier this month noted that they are combating the pandemic with prayer and science.
“If all of us in Uganda could fall on our knees and ask for forgiveness, I am very sure that God will hear from heaven, forgive us and heal our land. And we will be protected from COVID-19,” Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said during a press conference on 2nd April, 2020.
“For us in the Ministry of Health, we are combining both. We pray, and also have scientists to guide us on the response. In any case, the wisdom that the scientists are using, is given to them by God,” she said. “You cannot delink God from COVID-19 neither can you delink God from the response. He is the ultimate authority in this response. I appeal to Ugandans to continue praying.”
She also attributed the progress to the early response from government to combat the virus.
“When the numbers of exposed and infected individuals grow so fast, the stress on the system is huge and the system cannot cope with it,” Aceng said.
Uganda will on April 21 have made a month since the first case was confirmed on March 21, 2020, reports show.
