The team will be led by Resident District Commissioner who will be deputised by district health officers. Each district teams have committee members who will include: district vector control officers and district surveillance officers.
Murungi Monica, the Ibaale HC II in charge, notes that at on several occasions they have been forced to use their own money to buy things like gloves and masks because they last received a consignment from National Medical Stores -NMS about two months ago.
The group of over 20 residents included people living with disability, the elderly and other vulnerable persons like the boda boda riders among others.
Ziyadda Nangobi, one of the suspects says there hasn’t been any other communication ever since their body temperature was taken. She says they are given a single meal a day and don’t get breakfast.
He noted that they have different categories of people who were found with high body temperature and that the samples were picked and taken to Kampala for testing.
“The Indian association responded to the president’s call and their main aim was for us to help them handover this food to the national task force for proper accountability and recognition,” she told journalists.
