West Nile Gets Research Centre
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New Vision (Kampala)
January 17, 2004
Posted to the web January 19, 2004
Ahmed Angulibo
Kampala
West Nile has got a new multi-billion shilling plague control centre.
The United States-based Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) rehabilitated the facility at $5,000 (about sh87m).
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Speaking at the hand over ceremony recently, UVRI acting director Dr. Miph Musoke said the laboratory was useful because most people only read plague in books.
"This facility will assist in diagnosing various illnesses. The institution is going to get closer ties with medical institutions. In future it will become a rapid diagnostic centre," he said.
Musoke said the centre would serve the five districts in the West Nile sub-region.
He said it would start with Vurra and Okoro counties in Arua and Nebbi districts respectively where plague is rampant.
Arua district health chairperson Sabo Kamilo said the district registered eight fatal plague cases in 2002 and 2003.
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Nebbi director of health services Dr. Sam Orach said the district registers about 200 cases yearly.
He thanked and US government for the work.
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