Malaria concerns for Kampala with Dr Richard Idro advising that there were around 5 children each day admitted to the Acute Care Unit of Mulago National Referral hospital with convulsions and anaemia resulting from malaria infection. He said “It’s not only very young children who we used to see with such complications but now mostly bigger children in primary school with cerebral and severe malaria”, he said. The disease had been mostly eliminated in Uganda, but particularly Kampala, with outbreaks mostly only in the North.
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